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September First Black Day For Nepalis Working Abroad
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 1, 2010: on Sept. 01, 2004, Iraqi terrorists seized twelve Nepalis going to work in Iraq and mercilessly killed them; emotional Nepalis in turn looted and vandalized the offices of foreign manpower companies and a mosque in Kathmandu. However, the then Government headed by NC senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba did a least to protect the manpower companies and the mosque using the police sitting at the central police office across the streets from the mosque in Kathmandu. Since then, the foreign manpower companies have been marking the September First as the ‘black day’.
Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies has called on all the manpower companies in Nepal to shut down their offices on ‘September First’ to mark the day as a ‘black day’ for putting up pressure on the government for meeting their demands they have put up after the looting and vandalizing their offices on this day in protest against the killing of twelve Nepalis in Iraq. They have been demanding the compensation for the losses they have incurred due to the looting and vandalism, nepalnews.com reports.
