Indo-Nepal border dispute: Black flags greet Indian foreign secretary Menon in Nepal

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Black flags greet foreign secretary Menon in Nepal, four held - South Asia - World - The Times of India

KATHMANDU: Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon, on a two-day visit to Nepal on Saturday to give fresh impetus to the obstructed peace process and foster better ties with the new government, faced protests at the Kathmandu airport on his arrival by youths alleging India had occupied Nepal's territory.

Nepal police said about seven to eight young men, seemingly students, tried to show the visiting envoy black flags as he alighted at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.

However, police broke up the protest and arrested four of the protesters.

"It's a non-political protest," the Gaushala police station in-charge said. "The youths said they were part of the Susta Bachao Abhiyan. We are looking into the matter."

For years, Nepalis have been alleging Indian encroachment in Susta, a village in Nawalparasi district on the Indo-Nepal border.

Locals, who say they have been displaced, have formed a committee to begin a campaign to claim the village back.

The committee recently came to Kathmandu to submit a memorandum to the new Prime Minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal.

The Indian government says all border disputes between the two neighbours have been resolved except for Susta and Kalapani, another disputed area on the Indo-Nepal-China border.

However, on the eve of Menon's visit, there were a series of reports in the Nepali media, alleging further encroachment and violence by India's border guards - the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) - in other districts.

Though the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu denied the allegations, two teams of lawmakers and politicians who went to visit some of the disputed sites have since then submitted their reports, claiming the allegations were true.

There is speculation that the border disputes will also figure during the talks between the visiting envoy and Nepal's prime minister and other ministers.

While the prime minister himself has been taking a conciliatory tone, the chief of his own party has asked for Nepal's sovereignty to be protected.

Jhalanath Khanal, chief of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), has said that his party would give priority to maintaining the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

 

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Black flags shown to Menon in Nepal, four arrested - Yahoo! India News

Sat, Jun 20 01:17 PM

Kathmandu, June 20 (IANS) Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, on a two-day visit to Nepal Saturday to give fresh impetus to the obstructed peace process and foster better ties with the new government, faced protests at the Kathmandu airport on his arrival by youths alleging India had occupied Nepal's territory.

Nepal police said about seven to eight young men, seemingly students, tried to show the visiting envoy black flags as he alighted at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.

However, police broke up the protest and arrested four of the protesters.

'It's a non-political protest,' the Gaushala police station in-charge told IANS. 'The youths said they were part of the Susta Bachao Abhiyan. We are looking into the matter.'

For years, Nepalis have been alleging Indian encroachment in Susta, a village in Nawalparasi district on the Indo-Nepal border.

Locals, who say they have been displaced, have formed a committee to begin a campaign to claim the village back.

The committee recently came to Kathmandu to submit a memorandum to the new Prime Minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal.

The Indian government says all border disputes between the two neighbours have been resolved except for Susta and Kalapani, another disputed area on the Indo-Nepal-China border.

However, on the eve of Menon's visit, there were a series of reports in the Nepali media, alleging further encroachment and violence by India's border guards - the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) - in other districts.

Though the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu denied the allegations, two teams of lawmakers and politicians who went to visit some of the disputed sites have since then submitted their reports, claiming the allegations were true.

There is speculation that the border disputes will also figure during the talks between the visiting envoy and Nepal's prime minister and other ministers.

While the prime minister himself has been taking a conciliatory tone, the chief of his own party has asked for Nepal's sovereignty to be protected.

Jhalanath Khanal, chief of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), has said that his party would give priority to maintaining the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

 

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Orato: India- a foe in disguise of a friend?

India- a foe in disguise of a friend

In a fresh case of Indian transgression in Nepali, the Indian farmers backed by the Sashastra Sima Bal (SSB), the Indian paramilitary force deployed at the Indo-Nepal border, have once again encroached into Nepali territory in Susta, Nawalparasi district this week.

According to locals, some Indian farmers backed by SSB entered into their field and started to plough in about 4000 bighas of land and planted sugarcane and pulses. Back a year or so, "Save Susta Campaign" launched by Nepalis had made headlines. Tribeni-Susta which is situated on the east of Narayani River in the mid-southern part of Nawalparasi district was encroached by Indian forces which invaded Susta and burnt down the entire sugarcane farm which was spread in some 10 hectares of land. Reports like that come now and then, and it is same: Indian paramilitary forces don't even fear to manhandle Nepali citizens: men or women and even children.

"They have started to occupy Nepali territory since the last two week," they locals expressed concern.

They further said that the Indians have been even living there ever since erecting camps in Dhaniya of Susta village.

Though a unit of Nepali armed police force has been deployed in the area for the security of the territory, they have been unable to guard the territory owing to limited resources. The locals are complaining that the local administration is overlooking the increasing encroachment.

When the Chief District Officer, Bal Bahadur Malla was asked about the issue, he said "I don't have any idea about the incident."

Earlier this week, in an interaction programme organized by the Nepal Council of World Affairs in light of increasing Indian transgression of Nepali land, Nepali border experts accused the Nepali government of being ignorant to the Indo-Nepal border problems which is more than three decades old. Nepal has border disputes with India in 54 places of 21 districts bordering India, the experts said.

Addressing the interaction programme, border expert Buddhi Narayan Shretha suggested that the way to protect territorial integrity of Nepal is only through political and diplomatic efforts. He urged the need "to save the Nepalese land through bilateral talks at the highest political level and the diplomatic channel should be used with prudence and pragmatism."(RSS)

They accused our southern neighbor of taking control of Nepali soil in 54 places along the 1808-Km open border. Shasastra Seema Bal (SSB), Indian paramilitary guard, have started fencing at the Indo-Nepal border in Hile area of Pashupatinagar VDC-4, Illam, the easternmost region of Nepal about two weeks ago. They have already finished fencing 200 meter. They have even encroached into Nepali territory at two border pillars at Pashupatinagar.

It seems the Indian Home Ministry has increased the number of SSB battalions recently on the border not because of the fear of Maoists or ISI spies' infiltration into India via the open Nepal-India border but to implement an old-strategy of transgression.

After the SSB started fencing into the no-man's land, local administration, Area police office and locals have requested the Indian side to stop such activities.

"India has once again overruled the international law on border," Sonam Lama, Pashupatinagar Border Administrator said. He further said that if both the countries didn't resolve the issue soon, it will become more complicated.

"Its absurd that India keeps on repeating such activities," an infuriated local said. Locals have strong feelings regarding the issue, but their concerns are not properly addressed.

Meanwhile, Chief District Officer, Lekhnath Pokharel said that the report prepared after the study of the case have already been forwarded to the ministry for further steps As per international law on border, neither of the neighbor countries can perform any activities in the no-man's land.

It is noteworthy that the natural factors behind the dispute over the Indo-Nepal border have posed a problem for Nepali authorities to find solutions to this problem. Over the decades, the Narayani River has been changing its course inside the Nepalese side in the west, which has provided India with opportunity to claim more than 13,500 hectares of Nepalese land as their own.

It hasn't been more than a month, when Shashatra Sima Bal (SSB) forcibly transgressed into Nepalese territory and took control of over hundreds of bighas of land in Bardia district. SSB even fenced the encroached Nepali land with wires and have distributed it among the Indian farmers.

"We have been complaining about the transgression to the district administration office in Bardia, local political leaders and representatives of civil society but they are not heeding to our request," locals complained.

Although Chief District Officer of Bardiya Bimal Prasad Dhakal, Superintendent of Police Ghananda Jha and Chief of the land reform office had jointly inspected the area upon the repeated request of the locals, there has not been any development in this regard so far.

Locals cite frequent change of officers at the District Administration Office as one of the main reasons behind the issue not receiving the due attention of the concerned authorities.

Similarly, Kalapani-Limpiyadhura area with 372 sq km (37,800 hectares) is the largest chunk of Nepali territory encroached by India, Reagan Shrestha had wrote back in an article which is still floating in some internet websites. (Originally, he had written for Nepaleyes.com- which is now shut down.) "The encroachment started right after the India's defeat in India-China border war of November 1962. After facing defeat, the Indian army set up a camp inside Nepal's territory of Kalapani to keep an eye on Chinese activities. But now, they shamelessly claim that the area belongs to India," he said.

It's not bygone historical evidence. But ever since their first forceful takeover in 1961, India has been occupying Nepali lands in areas such as Gurka Kuti, Naavi, Chadaru, Gunji and Tinkar which are along the Indo-Nepal border. Besides Chadaru and Tinkar, all other places are under India's control. How could India ban us, Nepalis, from entering our own land ? It is a fact that after strong reaction and condemnations from the Nepalese press, India has already banned Nepalese as well as its own citizens from trespassing into the confiscated areas of Kalapani.

Nepali experts have repeatedly opine that there are many border points where not a single Nepali soldier is seen to guard our territorial integrity and guarantee safeguard of our own citizens. Our farmers and citizens have been repeatedly suffered due to Indian SSB's atrocities, and our concerned authorities are still mum- like their faithful dogs.

However, more twenty-five to thirty Nepal-India Joint Technical Level Boundary Committee meetings which were held in the last 25 years have failed to address the issue in a significant manner. It clearly illustrates the lack of Nepali politicians' sincerity and patriotism.

Nepal is a land-locked country, and requires Indian assistance to fulfill her economic and other goals. India could be, and seems to be, a partner in this regard. But why do they feel its right to occupy Nepalis soil every now and then. It is noteworthy that the then Nepalis Government had gave some land on lease to India to construct Koshi Barrage in Sunsari district. But India did not return it even after decades of expiry of the lease date. Neither India closed the project office, nor did it return the land. It didn't sign any agreement, and hasn't renewed the project.

The April Uprising that ousted King Gyanendra was successful not only due to own blood and sweat, but also largely due to Indian influence. But should Nepalis repay India's generosity by sacrificing our motherland, because it is neighbor country's moral duty to help its neighbor in time of crisis? India must revise its expansionist policy and stop considering Nepal as one of its tributary states.

One can easily surmise, how complicated and difficult it would be for Nepalis to retain their own lands until those who are in power in Nepal don't stop asking for help in form of economic and other aids from India counterparts. It seems, without becoming economically independent, Nepal can't exert real pressure to India.

Now, it is in our very Nepalis hands to safeguard our territory, but many doubt if Nepali politicians can abandon their self-interests for the national interest or not. If they can't put national sovereignty before their political interests, it is crystal-clear that India will be increasing its transgression drive without much difficulty. And we, ordinary Nepalis, would be languishing that these politicians are Sati's own curse to Nepal.

 

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Indian Hindu Extremists Chant Slogans against China and Nepal: Border Aggression Goes On | GroundReport

Indian Hindu Extremists Chant Slogans against China and Nepal: Border Aggression Goes On

On 1 and 2 January, Indian Hindu extremists organized under the BJP-led All India National Students Council chanted slogans against China and Nepal at the Indo-Nepal border area adjacent to Nepal’s Kanchanpur district. Just because India has signed a nuclear treaty with the United States of America, is it necessary for Indian political forces to feel intoxicated and chant slogans against neighborly countries? Is it a civilized way of doing politics? Is it in conformity with the norms and values of international relations?

When more than 99 percent of the Nepalis have already given their verdict through the 19-day April uprising in 2006 that they reject monarchy completely, why should extremist Hindus of India make efforts to preserve feudal monarchy in Nepal? Do they know how much the Nepalis have suffered from monarchy? Do they know that the Nepalis, too, are human beings seeking equal human dignity and the right to make their own decisions regarding their future? Have the Nepalis ever launched any border aggressions against India? Why do Indians alone, with the support of the SSB (their border security force) capture Nepali citizens’ land, houses and property? It seems, they need more human awareness and moral guidance from the Indian government. It has now become apparent that extremist Hindus of India have been more hurt by the Nepalis’ decision to abolish feudal monarchy in Nepal than Nepal’s concerned royal family members themselves. There are two reasons for this.

First, they have been following a very dangerous expansionist strategy to capture Nepal by glamorizing Nepal’s outgoing monarch as the Emperor of the Hindu World. They want to extend India’s border up to the bottom of the Mount Everest through Hindu emperor strategy.

Second, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has advocated for the preservation of Nepal’s monarchy for its own political and social interests for maintaining its political existence in India. In India, extremist Hindus launch genocides in village areas, especially in Bihar. Hundreds of Dalits have already been massacred just in the name of feudal practice of caste untouchability. Indian mainstream media rarely report heinous crimes committed by Hindu extremists there. Their rule rules out ethnic diversity and inclusiveness. Because of their own anti-diversity and anti-inclusive narrow-minded ideology, they cannot view Nepal’s current diverse and inclusive trends very positively. To take advantage of Nepal’s transition period, they have used their lackeys in the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) and the Jantantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (Goit) and Jwalasingh factions. These Nepal-based groups, with the help of Indian money, weapons and criminals gangs, have been criminalizing Madhesi people’s psychology to annihilate any change-seeking and progressive political forces in Nepal. In this context, there are many yet-uninterpreted underlying variables which will be unfolded on the coming days.

India has systematically encroached Nepal’s territory in the Indo-Nepal border region. In recent days, Susta in Nepal’s Nawalparasi district has become a symbol of India’s continuous border encroachment. India, a long former British Colony herself, has now ignored the fact that Nepal is a sovereign and independent nation. She has subtly encouraged her border security force SSB and Indian villagers to capture Nepali land and use it as their own. The local inhabitants of the disputed area have said that India has already encroached more than 14,000 hectares of Nepali land. Nepali students and youths, who marched up to the encroached area, have confirmed it.

This is a serious sovereignty issue over which the Nepal government has most surprisingly remained passive and silent. Ordinary Nepalis doubt the moral integrity of the current mainstream political leaderships and the government itself. After more pressures from groups outside the government, the phony parliament has raised the border encroachment in the parliament. Although this kind of border encroachment from India is not a new thing, it has been intensified in the recent months. On 1 and 2 January, India’s BJP-led students demonstrated against Nepal and China at the Indo-Nepal border side.

Still mysterious in this context is the total silence of the Nepal government even after the youth wings of the major political parties submitted their memorandum with a view to attract the attention of the government towards the continuous border encroachment.

Although the Nepal government has looked impotent in this matter, the Nepalis have taken the initiative. Youths, students, women, intellectuals and business people have demonstrated at the border side giving a clear message to border aggressors that the Nepalis will not tolerate their continuous border encroachment. They have expressed their commitment to sacrifice their lives for the sake of preserving Nepal’s sovereignty.

India has deliberately and systematically continued encroaching Nepal’s bordering territory since the early 1960s when King Mahendra bargained with India for sustaining his autocracy. Since then, it has become customary for other power-crazy political party leaderships to remain indifferent to national sovereignty for their personal advantages.

Civil society members of Nepal have emphasized on the need to launch a top level diplomatic negotiation in order to pressurize India to immediately stop encroaching Nepal’s territory.

If India, ignoring Nepal’s sovereignty and independence, continues encroaching Nepali territory in the coming weeks, it may be necessary for the Nepalis to harshly treat the Nepali traitors on the one hand, and rapidly internationalize the issue on the other.

 

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Third class dirty Chankya safronist expansionist diplomacy at work...

Why dont we just work together to resist it?

 

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Indian infringement over Nepal border Area | South & Central Asia | World News

Indian infringement over Nepal border Area

THE history of demarcation of India-Nepal border began on March 4th, 1816, after the signing of the "Sugauli Treaty" between the then British India and the state of Nepal, which declares River Mahakali, of Nepal, as the border-line between both the countries. The Treaty was expected to resolve the border issues, but it did not. Even after such a long time, the dispute regarding the border and the no-man's land area is being ensued now and then in different areas of Nepali border.

The reason for the continuation of such dispute is that the rivers, counted on as border, diverged from their courses several times in the past. Interestingly, 595 Km of the border is defined by rivers. Mechi in the East, Mahakali in the West and Naryani in the Susta area, and the unavailability of old maps and documents to revise demarcations has made the situation more significant.

The Central government of India deputed its Para-military security guards of special services bureau (Shastra Seema Bal) along the border where as to counter guard the Nepali side of border-line, presence of Nepali security is almost nil! Taking advantage of the ignorant attitude of Nepalese towards border guard, India started encroachment of the border land. She has said to encroach over 60,000 hectares in 21 of the bordering districts, by now. There has been a lot of hue and cry over the encroachment by Nepali people which unfortunately never fell on the deaf ears of the giant called India.

India surrounds Nepal from the East, West and South. There is a 1,808 km long border between Nepal and India, where 26 districts of Nepal adjoin Indian Territory, marking 54 areas of disputes altogether where the main ones include Kalapani- Limpiyahura, Susta, Mechi and Tanakpur. There is often found an opportunistic overtone in both countries regarding the ownership of such disputed border points. Hence, to resolve the issue, an India-Nepal Joint Technical Level Boundary Committee has been set up in motion which is still to find a reasonable solution for this false encroachment issue.

The encroachment by India started right after the Indo-Sino border war of November 1962. After facing defeat the Indian army set-up a camp inside Nepali's territory at Kalapani to monitor the Chinese activities. But now they claim that the area belongs to them.

However, reports prepared by Buddhi Narayan Shrestha, former director general of the Department of Survey Nepal, corroborates that the maps of 1850 and 1856 prepared by the Survey of India with the participation of Nepalese authority clearly states that the river originates from Limpiyadhura, 16 km North-West of Kalapani, which proves that Kalapani belongs to Nepal.

But India refuses to accept those maps as proof. They say that the map prepared by them in 1875 should be considered as proof which shows river Mahakali origin is beyond Kalapani. Interestingly, the said map does not have Nepal's certification.

The other disputed area situated in the East of Naryani River, is the Susta area, which is the tensest area owing to encroachment. Some time ago, over one thousand Indian villagers backed by Indian border police force (SSB) had forcibly entered the Nepali territory in Susta. They completely destroyed sugarcane in about ten hectares of land and also manhandled men and women.

Where the locals of Susta complain such incidents are rampant in the area. The main reason behind the dispute is the changing course of Naryani River, over the past decades. The river has said to change its course towards the Nepalese side in the West. India has encroached about 14,000 hectares of the reclaimed land because of this. The intrusion happened in stages over a period of 73 years. Considering the situation, the people of Nepal had launched a "save Susta campaign".

The organizers requested students of Nepal to join them and launch a valley wide campaign from Nepal's capital Katmandu. The purpose of the campaign was to inform the world about the wicked plans of her "polite" neighbor India. Actually the reason to start off the border dispute at Susta side is that Susta is surrounded by Indian Territory on three sides -the North, South and East, and on the West it is the Naryani River. Hence, cutting off Susta from its mother land becomes much easier for India to occupy it which will pave her closer to the "Greater India" dream of Hindus.

The other most talked about point of dispute is Mechi. India's disapproval of "Junge pillers" as the main boundary pillars has sparked the Mechi border dispute. The map published by the British India right after the Sauguli Treaty clearly indicates those pillars to be the main boundary pillars. Even history is evident that British had erected those pillars as monuments of Nepal-India border. But the credit goes to the Indian desire of getting control over weak and tiny neighbours which made her to incite the dispute by denying the original Sauguli Treaty signed by the British and the Nepal Kingdom.

According to the official records, Nepal covers a total area of 147,181 Sq Km. But in reality, the territory of Nepal is gradually shrinking because of the increasing encroachment by India. The Maoists Young Communist league (YCl) once submitted a memorandum to the Indian embassy Katmandu, demanding immediate return of the encroached land by the Indians in Susta area but later the political havoc in Nepal made everything go vanish for some time.

They demanded that scientific demarcation of the border land must be done as per historical maps, the encroached territories should be given back to Nepal and the bilateral bordering area should be regulated. The district level of Nepal and India earlier agreed not to allow the use of encroached land for any purpose and put the issue at the central level for the resolution of the problem. But despite the agreement Indian farmer have been cultivating in the disputed area. More than 125 Bighas of Nepali land has been encroached by Indian farmers in year 2007 alone.

The Nepal-India joint Technical level Boundary Committee has supposed to have completed 98% of the task of strip-mapping the border, as per 1874 Persian map adopted by the committee. According to them all the disputes, except Susta and Kalapani, have been resolved. But when the border is traced in the field, many instances of encroachment are found. The unwisely decision of Nepalese side of accepting the Persian map as the basis of demarcation has made them deprived of 1630 hectares of their own land, which now lies in Indian territory. The border committee somehow, could not act the way it ought to. It failed to take firm decisions regarding border disputes at several places, such as the presence of Indian Paramilitary force in Kalapani since 1962.

The amusing part is that India ignoring all her regional disputes is always eager to malign Pakistan by making her a part of every Indian dispute (with whom so ever it may be). And her practice is same even in this land dispute problem. Propaganda against Pakistan is the main instrument of Indian Intelligence. Exposing Indian hegemonic designs, Nepali media says that although India grumbles a lot of the India-Nepal open border being misused by the ISI, it is actually India's own intelligence agency which is blatantly exploiting the open border.

Today every tom, dick and Harry knows that the Terai agitation was actually fueled by India. Earlier when Nepal was a kingdom, India used to supply arms and ammunition to the warring fractions of the Terai and gave safe sanctuary to its leaders, as exposed by a visiting team of United Nation Mission in Nepal (UNMN).

The Research and Analysis Wing of Indian Intelligence (RAW) is active in Nepal for the last 40 years, earlier it was only the Intelligence Bureau (IB), operating from there. Experts say that due to open border and special relations with India and Indian association in political changes in 1950, 1990 and 2006, it has become easy for RAW to perform disguised role in Nepal. Raw is not only involved in creating instability and disturbing peace in the Asian region but its name is also associated with terrorism.

India has many interests in Nepal to fulfill which it has gradually made her strong political, diplomatic, economical and cultural influence there, all due to RAW's efforts. Her main strategy is to keep Nepal instable and always dependent towards India. In this regard, she has supported arms to the establishment as well as anti-establishment groups in Nepal, according to the former Prime Minister BP Koirala's biography.

The untrustworthy nature of India is evident from the past. She has a history for formulating efforts on multiple fronts to weaken the already fragile country to facilitate its swallowing. It is high time when all the Nepalese, currently divided among various political affiliations, should come together against the onslaught, instigated by India, in Nepalese territory and understand the game-plan of their so-called considerate neighbors. And India also should realize that the flame she has ignited in Nepal can very well extend to its own northern flank and the unstable southern part as well.

 

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India encroaches Nepal’s territory: destroys 264 pillars

While Nepalis in Indo-Nepal border areas have been frequently complaining of border encroachment by India, the International Relations and Human Rights Committee (IRHRC) under Nepal’s Legislative Parliament has found a serious level of border encroachment by India in Nepal’s Bara district.

A field study headed by the Committee’s Chairman and Constituent Assembly Member Nabindra Raj Joshi three days ago has revealed that India has encroached Nepal’s border by destroying 264 border pillars out of 685.

The IRHRC Chairman Nabindra Raj Joshi informed reporters that India has also erected buildings in Nepal’s territory.

Because Nepal’s Maoists tried to resist direct Indian interference in appointing temple’s priest and Army Chief, India has been openly exercising to re-consolidate in its favor the Nepal-based forces servile to it since long.

Nepalis’ international lobbying for the sake of their national sovereignty and independence is extremely weak due to deep-seated servile character of various intellectual and political forces in the country.

Ordinary masses strongly believe that the chief political leaders of the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) are completely manipulated by Indian rulers.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/india-encroaches-nepal-s-territory-destroys-264-pillars

 

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eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal

India ‘encroaches’ Nepali territory

Jhapa, May 24 - Nepali territory at Taghandubba in Jhapa district has been encroached by Indian side.

During the course of its on-site visit on Friday, a team led by Eastern Regional Administrator Dik Basnet found that the Pillar No. 123 at Taghandubba-2 was scooped up from its original place and erected in Nepali territory, thus encroaching about 20 meters of land, according to the team.

Chief District Officer of Jhapa Narendra Dahal, police personnel and government officials were the team members. The team said that it would investigate the border encroachment case.

Earlier this week, the International Relations and Human Rights Committee under the Legislature-Parliament had reported that some 264 border pillars were found lost in Bara district.

The information was based on the facts found from the on-site visit by the committee led by Constituent Assembly member Nabindra Raj Joshi.

The parliamentary team inspected pillar number 381, 382, 383 and 384 of Martihawa and the encroachment was found in Das Gaja area from both Nepali and Indian sides, according to team coordinator Joshi.

He said it was found during the inspection that the Indian side was attempting to capture land in Chhitkaiya of Bara.

 

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eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal

Indians encroach Susta land again

BY BECHU GAUD

NAWALPARASI, Nov 23 - Disregarding agreements reached with the government of Nepal, the Indian authorities have once against started encroaching borderland in Susta of Nawalparasi.

According to locals in Susta, Indian nationals from the bordering village of Rampur backed up by Seema Surakshya Bal (SSB) recently encroached over 1,200 bighas of land in Susta. Adam Khan, vice chairman of Save Susta Campaign said a group of Indian nationals led by SSB chief of Balmikipur BR Barot have been encroaching cultivable lands located in Dhaniya area from the Northeast.

"SSB men and locals of Rampur village chased away Nepali farmers from Susta who were plowing the land there," Khan told the Post. Locals also stated the police administration showed no interest in the matter when they reported the incident to them.

Tek Narayan Upadhya, former VDC chairman of Susta said that Rampur locals fiercely opposed and prepared themselves for a scuffle when landowners from Susta approached the Indian side with their land ownership certificates. "The Indians told us that we had fake ownership certificates," Upadhya said.

On July early this year, a Nepali team of security officials under the leadership of Chief District Officer (CDO) had met and reached agreement with the Indian team of security officials not to encroach land belonging to either side. However, the Indian side has encroached Nepali land breaching the agreement reached four months ago.

Locals claimed that SSB personnel have "fully supported" the encroachment attempt. Meanwhile, CDO Govinda Khanal stated that the local administration has deployed a team of Nepal Border Police Force to take stock of the incident. Khanal also blamed the Indian side for not implementing the agreements reached repeatedly by the two countries.

Breaching the past three understandings reached by the two countries, the Indian side has blatantly tried to encroach Nepali land several times after the SSB force stationed itself on the Indo-Nepal border in the district.

 

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MYREPUBLICA.com - News in Nepal: Fast, Full & Factual

Displaced number 2000, run out of food; Nepali land 'encroached'


RUDRA KHADKA

SATBARIYA, Dang, June 3: Some 2000 Nepalis from villages on Nepal-India border who have been displaced due to alleged harassment by Indian border security forces are running out of the meager food stuff they brought with them.

These people from the bordering Rajpur, Koilabas, Bela and Gobardiha villages have been staying in the Kari community forest adjoining the East-West Highway in Dang district.

The number of displaced due to harassment by India´s border security force -- Sashastra Surakshya Bal (SSB) -- is increasing. Even on Tuesday, some 250 came to Satbariya. Many are still on the highway not knowing where to go.



Homeless poor Nepali people due to Indian harassment

Karma Roka, 28, of Kalyankoti in Rajpur has a supply of just half a kilogram of rice. Karma, who has two daughters, left her village on May 28 after threats from the Indian security personnel. She had 5 kg of rice then.

"I don´t know what will happen once the remaining rice is consumed," Karma told myrepublica.com.

These villagers have accused SSB of harassing them, especially the women. Reports surface from time to time about SSB´s "high-handedness" and notorious behavior against Nepal citizens. But neither Nepal government nor its Indian counterpart have been able to restrain the SSB.

"The Indian side harassed us because we are Nepalis and the Nepal government never bothered about us," said another displaced Deviram BK. "Either the government should ensure security in our villages or help settle us at a secure place."

Of the 22 transit points on the international border, just Koilabas and Khangi have police posts. Robbers and goons from India often raid these four villages, the displaced allege but rue that there is no protection from the district administration.

Some people get "displaced" from their villages in the hope of getting land from the government, officials of Kari community forest that occupies an area of 47o hectares, said. They also said that some of the "displaced" have started "capturing" community and private forest areas.

Displaced Nepalese people are now living in a forest

Some of the displaced also accuse the India forces of encroaching on Nepali territory, another charge that comes up frequently. While the Nepali government officials maintain a conspicuous silence, the Indian officials deny it.

Nepalis in these bordering villages have accused the SSB of shifting the border demarcation pillars toward Nepali territories.

Spokesperson of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Dinanath Sharma issued a press release in Kathmandu on Tuesday, condemning the "encroachment". The party has termed it an encroachment on Nepal´s sovereignty.

The press release said that India´s SSB has burnt houses, beat people, raped women in villages in Koilabas, Patauli, Siriya, Sukauli, Gurung and Bhaisahi in Dang and Jhitkaiya, Badki, Fubariya, and Basantpur in Bara district.

"Dispute about Susta, Maheshpur, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura has long prevailed," Sharma said. India´s neighboring, small and weak nations have been suffering due to its traditional, feudalistic, bullying and expansionist policy."

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Home Affairs in Kathmandu has instructed the Dang administration to conduct a field study of the displaced and report to it. It has also asked the Department of Survey to look into the complaints of shifting of border pillars.

 

[Communist]

Indian Expansionism: Harmful for Peace in South Asia

Global Politician - Indian Expansionism: Harmful for Peace in South Asia

Hari Bansha Dulal

The encroachment of Nepalese land in Susta VDC, Nawalparasi clearly demonstrates how India is trying to take advantage of current political mess in Nepal by encroaching Nepalese territory. While Indian embassy's staffers in Kathmandu keep themselves busy trying to paint India's friendly attitude by providing funds to build bridges and inaugurating school buildings in terai, their government in New Delhi makes Nepalese pay for the financial aid provided to Nepal by ripping off their national identity. However, what could be the better time than this to encroach a smaller state's territory? Political parties are wrestling with King to grab the power and king is
flexing his muscle to maintain status quo. New Delhi does understand that neither political parties that are busy protesting in the street nor King residing in the Narayanhiti trying to garner India's support can afford to displease India by voicing their concern over Susta. As both the warring parties are trying their best to remain in good books of India, poor in Susta are forcibly getting converted into Indian citizens without much opposition from the government and political parties that are meant to fight for the citizens right. Citizens of Susta are the recent victims of bullish and oppressive policies of the Indian expansionists.

Nepal is not only the nation that is having a border dispute with India. India has an ongoing border dispute with China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Although, the areas in contention with China and Pakistan are among the largest existing land boundary disputes in the world. The Indo-Bangladeshi contention over New Moore/South Talpatty Island and Indo-Nepali dispute over Kalapani and Susta involve comparatively small area. But the point here is not how big or small the area of dispute is. It's about the India's attitude towards it neighbors in the region. With three-quarters of the landmass, population and economy of the region, India has developed a bullish and hegemonic attitude towards its neighbor. Even after having fought wars with China and a recent war (Kargil) over Kashmir with Pakistan, India has not acknowledged the importance of peaceful coexistence. In addition to the already existing issues such as Kalapani which has been forcibly occupied by the Indian army; the Laxmanpur Barrage that has resulted in the flooding of Nepalese villages; the Mahakali treaty that is unfairly loaded in favor of India, the recent Susta encroachment exhibits India's increasing lust over foreign territories. What New Delhi should understand is, national boundaries are symptomatic of wider bilateral relations and manifestations of national identity. They can be trip-wires of war. The seething anger of the people of China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal against the Indian expansionism may burst into the open any time in near future. The people of these countries in order to ascertain their self respect and nationalism can burst open and harm Indian interests and establishments in their respective countries and the region as they did during the Hritik Roshan Fiasco in Nepal.

The anti-Indian feeling in Nepal is at the highest level and the Nepalese citizens are bitter to the core. India should realize that relationship built on genuine equality and mutual respect, is the only guarantee for peace and development in South Asia.

Hari Bansha Dulal is a doctoral student of Environmental Science and Public Policy at George Mason University, Virginia, USA

 

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India- trouble maker, always want to invade other countries

 

[Communist]

India- trouble maker, always want to invade other countries

Indian soldiers' only ambition in life is to rape the women of other countries as it seems from the reports.

Such aggressors must be eliminated, no mercy...

 

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Susta encroachment by India contiues: India mum, Nepal angry

Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan called the Indian ambassdaor Shiv Shanker Mukheerjee and asked the planned high-way along east-west of Nepal border. The shameless Indian ambassador, who is more active in distributing money in the Terai in the name of social work and the spokesman of Indian criminal gangs operating in Kathmandu and Terai, shamelessly denied the report of highway. But he continued to distribute the money to the criminals in Terai to create law and order problem for Nepal.

Pradhan also raised the issue of Indian government's policy in land encroachment of various parts of Nepal especially Susta of Nawalparasi in recent days today with the Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukheerjee. But as usual expansionist Indian authority and its foreign minister Pranab Mukheerjee requested her to keep this issue in a status quo. But why? Because its not right time that India can pressure Nepal. But ultimately India will pressure Nepal when the situation will be more fluid and India can dictate.

Otherwise if India is a friend of Nepal, why can't it stop its SSB-backed land encroachment that has already encroached a huge section of land from almost 10 years and back its SSB. But India will not do that because India is expansionist and now wants Nepal's land and water resources.

In the recent development, India wants to capture Nepal's water resourses through its private companies like GMR who are trying to enter Nepal through back door by buying Nepali hydro companies shares like India entered Nepal through back door by using Himalaya Times and now it threw its Nepali partner and operating one english and one Nepali broadsheet dailies which never prints the news of Susta and always prints the press release of Indian embassy.


Kaal Bhairav: Susta encroachment by India contiues: India mum, Nepal angry

 

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Please support Nepal and throw Indian aggression to the dustbin.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Condemn-Indian-Aggression