Transparty transgression, attack on media and the shroud of fake rainbow:

March 26-

About 135 foreign nationals from 38 countries including India, the United States, China, and Japan, gathered in the Simli Jungle of Ghodaghodi-9, Kailali on the second week of March. The group, ranging in age from young children to individuals in their 40s, has been staying in the area for about a week.
The individuals, who identify themselves as part of the “Rainbow Family Gathering,” have been cooking their own meals and sleeping in the jungle, raising concerns among local residents. The authorities have asked the group to leave the area within 24 hours and continue to their destinations.

Of the 135 foreign nationals occupying the area illegally, only 45 have left the jungle after getting administrative instruction and 95 are still in the jungle. Defying the administration’s instructions, they say that they will leave the land on April 2. The police returned empty-handed after they took a stand not to leave the forest where they were living.

The District Administration Office, Kailali, gave given directive on Thursday March 20, to leave the forest within 24 hours.

Police Inspector Dirgha Saud, Chief of the Area Police Office, Sukhad said, “A team of police went to request Illegally residing foreign nationals to leave the place after many defied formal order, however, all repeated requests have gone in vain.”

He said, “We cannot use force because they are foreigners. They said they would leave on their own in a few days. Since they did not cause any damage to the community or anything else, we left them to be.”

Ward Chair of Ghodaghodi Municipality -9, Harik Chandra Shah, said that the foreign nationals who had gathered in the forest had taken a stand to leave the forest only on April 2 (Chaitra 20, 2082 B.S).

Citizens of various countries reached the Simli forest for a few days under the name ‘Rainbow Family Gathering’. However, they have not obtained permission from anywhere to stay in the forest after coming to Nepal on tourist visas.

According to locals, they have been performing various activities there while half-naked and continue to do so. They had assaulted a journalist a few days ago.

“We reached there on Thursday after receiving complaints that foreigners have been staying in the forest area for the past week and that they are engaging in unnatural activities,” said Chief District Officer Hamal. “It is seen that they have been staying in the forest area of ​​Simli without taking permission from any body. All have been instructed to go to their destinations within 24 hours. During the monitoring, they told the Chief District Officer that they were nature lovers and had been living in various countries. However, since it was found that they had not taken permission from any body of the Nepal government, the local administration has instructed them to leave the forest area. However, since they were not found to be carrying out activities that would affect peace and security during the monitoring, the administration has stated that it was found that they had not taken permission from any body.

It has also transpired that some locals of Ghodaghodi Municipality are coordinating with foreign nationals. After reporting on the same issue, journalist Prakash Mishra of Sukhad was assaulted on Thursday afternoon. Mishra was assaulted by Chet Bahadur Singh, 40, the owner of Shrijana Hotel in Pahalmanpur of Ghodaghodi Municipality-10, and Double Bahadur Shah, 48, the owner of Ajuwa Cafe in the same municipality-1. Mishra had written a news report that a foreign national was doing unnatural and mysterious activities in the forest area of ​​Ghodaghodi and that hotelier Shah was coordinating it.

He was assaulted over the same issue. The district and state working committees of the Nepali Journalists Federation and various associations have protested the incident of assault on Mishra and demanded that the culprits be brought to justice. The Area Police Office, Sukhad, has said that Shah, who was involved in the assault, has been taken into custody. Although the local administration has instructed foreign nationals living in the forest area without permission to return to their destination within 24 hours, it has been found that the Ghodaghodi Municipality has welcomed them, saying that they will exchange cultures. A few months ago, foreign nationals had entered the Ramaroshan area of ​​Achham under the name Rainbow Family Gathering.

Local Authorities and Businesses Arranging and Complicit with the Trans Community?

Meanwhile, Ghodaghodi Municipality also held a cultural exchange program with them. According to the municipality’s spokesperson, Ghanshyam Ojha, “the municipality welcomed them after a large number of foreign tourists arrived.”

According to Ojha, the municipality was not aware of the ‘Rainbow Family’. He says, “They had their own musical instruments, and their costumes were also different. We welcomed them after the foreign tourists arrived.” The ‘Rainbow Family Group’ seen in the forests of Kailali was also seen in Ramaroshan in Achham in 2080. The administration had banned entry to Ramaroshan, calling it ‘suspicious’. Despite the administration’s attempts to stop it, thousands of foreigners reached Ramaroshan. Citizens from 61 countries had reached here.

After the New Year, in 2075 (2019), the same ‘Rainbow Family Group’ had also reached the Tinjure Milke Jalajle (TMJ) area, bordering Sankhuwasabha and Tehrathum in the eastern hilly districts. The local administration had banned the gathering that was going to be held there.

They had planned to hold a ‘trans party’ there. The district administration office had stopped the trans party that was going to be organized by the Shakti Peak Nepal organization in Kathmandu and the local Tinjure Gurans Club at that time.

The organizers had also sought financial support from Madi Municipality, saying that they were going to hold an international music festival. However, the administration postponed the program, saying that it would be an illegal act.

Before the event was held in the Tinjure area, in the first week of Chaitra 2075, the police had arrested participants of a trans party from Lakeside in Pokhara. According to police statistics, 44 foreigners and 14 Nepalis were arrested in a raid on a trans party organized at a local restaurant.

What is a trans party?

A trans party is a trinity of drugs, music, and sex. Participants play loud music while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. And, engage in sexual activities.

Hundreds of foreigners came to dance and sing on an island in the Koshi River in Sunsari in 2072 BS. The locals were happy that foreign tourists had come to visit. However, the administration intervened when the locals gradually became frightened by the sound of music playing there.

The people who came there did not care about each other. They danced with alcohol and drugs in their hands, says a person in charge of the local management.

Those who are intoxicated at the party get close to each other. Gradually, obscene acts begin to occur. This is the specialty of trance parties. Trance parties are more popular in hippie circles.

After a group organizes a trance party, people in their circle are informed through various groups on social media. Information is given through websites and groups to participate in such parties.

Nepal: Projected as Global LGBTQ Hub?

Some activists have been raising the voice that Nepal is being promoted and painted as the global LGBT Hub, Rainbow Tourism Destination and and a safe haven for the trans  community. Many did not take such warnings seriously, but now such sightings have indicated towards that, said a civic society leader when asked about his opinion on the recent news.

MAF- Nepal, Civic Concern Nepal, National People Front and some others have been raising voice regarding foreign interference into the social and family structures, national sovereignty and erosion of ethical values because of such imposed agenda.