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It is a common occurrence, this encroachment of Nepali land by Seema Surakshya Bal, or SSB, India's border patrol. Most often, it is done on the behest of local politicians or land-owners on the Indian side: if you move the pillars by 35 meters for perhaps a kilometer, you suddenly open up so much farming land on the other side that it becomes worth the corruption, the coercion. I seriously doubt this is an effort directed by politicians at the center, or the Indian state apparatus: India has always, and very effectively, used closures of trading posts along the border to enforce political change inside Nepal. This grabbing of piecemeal parcels of land is too petty for it to be directed by the government of India.
I am not too naive to ignore the possibility of the involvement of politicians leading ethnic movements inside Nepal, either. Just read the last names of most of the victims.
But, when rape becomes a feature of it, there are serious problems that both governments should take seriously. It is bad enough that these acts deprive the poorest of the poor of their fundamental rights to property and the pursuit of a peaceful livelihood. But, to rape women and girls and disappear them? Murder is implied here, as I'm sure everybody realizes.
In this day and age, it is retarded, unacceptable even, that simply shifting the concrete pillars can be sufficient to change the international border between two countries. Fucking Retards in Nepali Government, just do this much:
--Call the Indian Ambassador, instruct him to supply a team from the Indian Ministry for External Affairs;
--Delegate a couple of officers from Foreign Ministry here;
--Suck some UN balls to acquire a GPS reader, you fuckfaces, you miserable maggots;
--Train the petty bureaucrats on how to place the GPS reader on the pillars, and how to to record it electronically;
--Make sure they have enough time to physically walk the border between the two countries. You might even want to have multiple teams working simultaneously.
This way, you see, you could have a record of the Nepali border that couldn't be altered by a barrack of gun-wielding men directed by a greedy goonda. Simple.
Well, Madhav Nepal and Bidhya Bhandari, if you can't do something about this, FUCK YOU! If you don't react strongly in print in tomorrow's paper, I am going to react strongly in Sunday's paper, calling you names you deserve.
the editor for Kathmandu Post must really have a busy time editing your articles
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