Kathmandu [Nepal], August 22 (ANI): China's expansionist designs is
going on unchecked in Nepal as it is slowly and gradually encroaching
Nepali land at multiple locations with the tacit support of the present
dispensation headed by Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli.
According to a
report by the Survey Department of Agriculture Ministry of Nepal, China
has illegally occupied Nepal's land in several places spreading over
seven bordering districts. The report stated Beijing is fast moving
forward and further pushing Nepali boundaries by encroaching more and
more landmass.
It is important to note that the data is being
under-reported and the actual scenario could be worse as the Nepali
Communist Party (NCP) is trying to shield the expansionist agenda of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
It is believed that China has made
inroads into several other areas of Nepal, occupied land, and slowly
progressing within the country. Prime Minister KP Oli government has
preferred to keep mum over the 'illegal occupation' of the village by
China under fears of displeasing the CCP.
The Nepali, districts which
are victims of China's land-grabbing plan including Dolakha, Gorkha,
Darchula, Humla, Sindhupalchowk, Sankhuwasabha and Rasuwa.
According
to the surveying and mapping department of Nepal, China has pushed the
international boundary 1,500 meters towards Nepal in Dolakha.
It has pushed the boundary pillar Number 57 in the Korlang area in Dolakha, which was previously located at top of Korlang.
The
pillar has been an issue of confrontation between the two countries and
China pressurised the Nepali government not to sign the fourth protocol
on resolving and managing border disputes between the two countries as
China wanted to maintain the status quo and further transgress the
boundary arrangements.
The surveying and mapping department has also
reported that China has occupied Nepali villages in Gorkha and Darchula
districts. Similar to Dolakha, China has relocated Boundary Pillar
Numbers 35, 37 and 38 in Gorkha district and Boundary Pillar Number 62
in Nampa Bhanjyang in Solukhumbu.
The first three pillars were
located in Gorkha's Rui village and areas of Tom River. Though Nepal's
official map shows the village as a part of Nepali territory and
citizens of the village have been paying taxes to Nepal government,
China had occupied the region and merged it with the Tibet Autonomous
Region of China in 2017.
Similarly, the Human Rights Commission has
reported that a portion of the Jiujiu Village of Darchula has also been
occupied by China.
Numerous houses that used to be a part of Nepal have been now taken over by China and assimilated into the Chinese territory.
Besides
the reports of land grabbing by the two Nepali agencies, the Ministry
of Agriculture also recently came up with a report highlighting multiple
cases of land grabbing by China.
The Ministry reported about China's
occupation of Nepali land in at least 11 places falling under four
Nepali districts. Most of the areas occupied in these districts are
catchment areas of rivers, including areas of Bhagdare river in Humla,
Karnali river, Sanjen river, and Lemde river in Rasuwa; Bhurjug river,
Kharane river, and Jambu river in Sindhupalchowk, Bhotekoshi river and
Samjug river in Sankhuwasabha; Kamkhola river and Arun river.
Nepal
has refrained itself from going ahead with the border talks with China
since 2005 as the Nepali government does not want to offend China by
reclaiming Nepali land and at the same time dodge criticism at the
domestic front for losing territory to China. The Nepali government has
also suspended the 2012 border talks to save itself from getting into an
indecisive situation.
In June, members of the opposition Nepali
Congress moved a resolution in the House of Representatives, the lower
house of the Nepalese Parliament, asking the Oli Government to restore
the country's territory, which had been encroached upon by China.
The
Nepali Congress lawmakers alleged that China had encroached 64 hectares
of land in Dolakha, Humla, Sindhupalchowk, Sankhuwasabha, Gorkha and
Rasuwa districts of the country.
They alleged that few of the total
98 boundary pillars along the 1414.88 km long border between Nepal and
China had gone missing while several others had been shifted inside the
territory of Nepal.
In recent times, the Nepali Communist Party has
been acting like a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party, which has kept
dominating the decision-making process in Nepal.
The entire world
has witnessed the developments wherein the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal
has been acting as a mediator and sorting out between Oli and Prachanda
factions of the NCP and she played a crucial role in saving Oli
government. The friendship and assistance of China to Nepal is a part of
the colonial design to 'further the expansionist agenda by China'.
With
a crippling economy, rising corruption, and ever-changing dynamics
within the NCP, Prime Minister KP Oli is playing safe as Nepal is not in
a situation of upsetting China. No wonder, China is increasingly
getting safe passage to infiltrate into Nepal and occupy the Nepali
territory, part by part. (ANI)
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