This went on, the strikes and the camp they were put in became full. There was a shortage of space, food and sanitation. A very explosive situation ensued. On April 20, 1942, the chief inspector of the police, Van der Kroef, was ordered by the commander of the military police forces to select 85 Chinese and transfer them to another camp. They received help from the Immigration Service and 13 police officers and a number of guards from the CPIM. This separation resulted in a violent confrontation in which 12 Chinese were shot dead, 44 were injured and 3 more died of their wounds. After that, the Chinese are still separated. The dead were buried in the early morning of April 21, 1942, secretly and they were buried anonymously in the "graveyard of disgrace" Colebra Bèrdè. The Curacao government forbade the press to publish the incident. An independent investigation was not allowed and the incident dubbed "the Chinese conflict" was covered up. The Curacao government, nor the Dutch State have never accounted to the relatives of the murdered or injured Chinese in Curacao until the year 2022, 80 years later to date. These vases went into exhibition first in the Netherlands where they were made in 2021 and the year after the solo exhibiton took place on April 20, 2022 at the Curacao museum.