China backs govt. against American complaint

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 5 May: China has lent firm support to the Nepalese government against its crackdown on Tibetan refugees staging daily protests at the Chinese embassy in the Nepalese capital after American Ambassador Nancy J. Powell lent support to the refugees.
She protested the government crackdown against what she called legitimate protests of refugees calling it an abuse of their human rights with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
Nepal has become a battlefield for USA and China over Tibet.
Without naming the US embassy, a statement of the Chinese embassy Sunday said the embassy “.. embassy in Nepal and one or two so-called human rights have been pointing fingers on the measures adopted by the government of Nepal, in accordance with law and to deal with anti-China separatist activities launched by some Tibetans in Nepal.
‘Such behaviours of publicly interfering with other country’s internal affairs and attempting to damage the relations between Nepal and its neighbour of publicly interfering with other country’s internal affairs and attempted damage to relations between Nepal and its neighbour are not wise at all,” the statement said.
The Chinese embassy charged refugees repeatedly attempted to storm and damage the embassy and said houses and shops of ‘patriotic Tibetans’ have been attacked and their lives threatened.
Police told a newspaper Sunday most of protestors don’t have refugee ID cards suggesting they were transported across the border from the open Indo-Nepal border.
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India to help rehabilitate Maoist combatants

Kathmandu, 5 May: The Indian government is likely to help Nepal rehabilitate Maoist combatants in the cantonments as an initial offer to Kathmandu in the changed political context, The Kathmandu Post reported quoting Business Standard, an Indian publication.
“Training 30,000 men would be a small but significant goodwill gesture toward the people of Nepal,” the newspaper quoted a senior policy-maker in New Delhi as saying.
Besides, the newspaper quoting anonymous sources at the Indian External Affairs Ministry further reported that details of how and where to train these people will be worked out in consultation with the Nepalese government.
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