Kathmandu, April 24 -- "We don't know where to put our belongings or where to go. We don't have anyone we can rely on," Urmila Rai, 58, said on Friday afternoon as she struggled to pack up her things while staring at her tin-roofed home.

She does not know where she will spend the night. No one is offering her a place to stay, and there is nowhere to go. As she kept looking back at the emptying room, her eyes filled with tears.

"The bulldozers are coming now. I don't even have the strength left to protest," she said, breaking down.

Like Urmila, other residents in a squatter settlement at Thapathali in Kathmandu were also rushing to move their belongings. Some were loading goods onto vehicles. "We are going to Bhaktapur, we will lease la...