The UN seems to hide that it has received letter for intervention from Tarai outfits. Plz see the 2 news below:
Nepal rebel groups seek UN help for 'freedom'
November 9th, 2008
As Nepal's Maoist government sought to open parleys with the armed rebel groups battling for greater rights in the southern plains, two of them have approached the UN seeking self-determination.The Terai Army and Terai Rastriya Mukti Sena, two underground organisations facing police action in Nepal's turbulent Terai plains, have sent a joint letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asking for the world body's support to shake off the Terai's present "colonial" status and become a free state with the right to self-determination. The letter, sent during Ban's recent visit to Nepal, says in the past, the Terai was an independent land.
However, the East India Company that overran India, carved up the fertile plain and gave parts of it to Nepal as "reward" for helping them put down the Sepoy Mutiny in India, regarded as India's first war of independence.
"Are we and our homeland the Terai pieces of gold that we can be given away as reward?" the letter asks the world body chief.
In Nepal, UN Is Counting Guns But Not Controlling, Terai Cries Misunderstood
Inner City Press asked Martin about two reported letters to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, during his recent visit to Kathmandu, from independence fighters from the Terai plains region. Martin addressed not these letter and claims but those of parliamentarians, some of whom met with Ban during his visit.
http://www.innercitypress.com/un1minterai111108.html
Why is the UN not acknowledging the letter it received from Tarai outfits????
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Bal Krishna
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