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Kathmandu Saturday August 11, 2001 Shrawan 27, 2058.
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Stop
bullying
It seems that India will never stop bullying
Nepal. Without respecting the international
law and our sovereignty, the Indian government has built a number of dams near the
international border. Acres of land, belonging to the poor farmers on the side of Nepal,
have been submerged this summer and rendered hundreds of people homeless. And now the
Indian government is building another dam across the Danav river near Lumbini, the
birthplace of Lord Buddha, an apostle of peace. Experts say that if this dam is built, it
will flood the whole area.
Therefore, the government and other
organizations must stop India from building the dam across the Danav river. It was due to
the Nepali rulers, besides the bloody Anglo-Nepal war of 1814-1816, we lost vast land,
stretching from Tista to Sutlej, to British-India. Many of us are yet to recall this fact.
Yam Bahadur Gurung
General Secretary,GAESO |
