Limbuwan लिम्बुवान Nepal

Limbuwan, On 28 Non 2007
A National Political Conference of some political organizations declared a Kathmandu Declaration[click for] on 20th November 2007. The Struggling political organizations Federal Democratic National Forum, Federal Limbuwan State Council, Tamangsaling Autonomous State Council; Madheshee People’s Right Forum Nepal and United Tharu National front Nepal have agreed and made a common front for further movement named Federal Republican National Front Nepal. The organizations agreed to make common demands or issue of movement for Completely eradication of monarch before the election of Constituent Assembly[CA]. Management of fully proportional Electoral System for CA in the base of proportional representation of each ethnic group. Establishment of Ethnic Autonomous States with the right to self-determination in the base of the historical background of Ethnicity and language, etc. According to the agreed Kathamandu Declaration, the Front has presented a Memorandum Letter [click]to Prime Minister Girija Pd. Koirala on 21st November by mentioning all of demands to be fulfilled with the ultimatum for 7 days. As Govt. doesn’t respond for the demands after passing seven days, the front has obliged to announce first step of movement on 28th November 2007. The front decided to conduct peoples awakening movement for the first step at the different regions of the country. As their schedule, Front is organizing Public meetings altogether four places. According to the schedule- First Public meeting will be in Madhesh at Birganj on 23rd Mangsir [9th Dec.2007] Second Public Meeting will be in Limbuwan at Kerkha on 26 Mangsir [12th Dec 2007] Third Public Meeting will be in Tamangsaling at Hetauda on 29 Mangsir [15Dec 2007] Fourth Public Meeting will be in Tharuhat at Kailali on 3rd Push [19th Dec 2007] According to the front, another decisive movement will be organized, if the govt. doesn’t respond and fulfill the demands.

 By  Shakun Sherchand Leslie

Introduction: Namaste! To all my fellow citizens who are concerned and assembled here, to empower the civil rights movement, through the joint collaboration of the National Liberation Movement.

I would also like to commend the foreign delegation, trying to comprehend the intrinsic demands of the marginalized communities, who comprise 74% of the Nepali population.
Politics: The underlying truth of the failure of the 8 parties is the failure of the existing government to deliver a system that adheres to the social justice and upliftment of the marginalized population. It is transparent to all Nepalese that without addressing the issues, the fact remains troubled. The demands put forward by the marginalized groups and communities are not political issues of little insignificance. They are intelligent facets of an organic society, demanding better solutions to hold a stressed nation on the verge of collapse. The demands are as much of a fact as food is to hunger, as water is to thirst and survival is to dignity. To decode the human facts is like oppressing the wind. If you oppress the wind, the trees shall seethe.

Positives: To be part of the social change is to be part of the social justice, by condemning the incompetence of those who hold power and who should empower change. To believe in the will to right the wrongs of human inequality, injustice and pathetic under representation of the 74% majority is to cooperate with nation building. To ignore the rightful demands of the marginalized and infringed groups is to support the illiteracy and poverty in Nepal , because literacy and economic benefits are the only facts that are streamlined to the privileged minority.

Donor affliction: All the experts and goodwill institutions, whether it is the UN or an acclaimed INGO, should make the right intervention if intervention is necessary at all.  You cannot harvest wheat in the desert, if the sand cannot hold water to germinate the seeds. You cannot import democracy in Nepal without transforming the social changes, if the existing system perpetuates social segregation at all levels of governance.

Personal: What is frightening to me is the freak development that is becoming a larger truth of our Nepali lives and which we can hardly grasp the positives of development.

The fundamental question in my mind as it stands today is: what political sense is a minority more legitimate than the majority?

If so- can the 74% of the excluded majority be an intrinsic component in Nepali democracy?

Autonomous Federalism: Nature decided that we are diverse and our diversity decides that by sharing equally the resources and possibilities, we may be able to live in peace and harmony as is possible in the human context. The geography and demographic reality respects the rights of the 59-103 diverse, human cultural species, who have homed here for generations. As the centralized system of 238 years has diminished the existence of diversity, autonomous federation is the only alternative to improve the development of the intrinsic bond between man and his land of reference.

Proportional Representation: To sustain the dignity of the diverse peoples and to make all Nepalese proud of a national unity- one must have creative alternatives to the fast crumbling, dysfunctional minority rule. We need new, dynamic leaderships who understand the ethics of diversity.

Plea: My sincere plea to all donor agencies is, when you help feed a system, whose credibility is the systematic efficiency in streamlining discrimination, corruption and impunity; you are helping to defeat the purpose that is close to the morals of your services here. Be an activist in your respective missions. This is the only possible way to create a balanced world around you. 

Activist: Only activists can bring the right social changes, because an activist does not act against his conscience and the human conscience, interestingly has no border.

Message: Nepal should never fail as a nation because it was never given a chance to envision a country which should be sustained by the representation of all.

The demands remain true but the fact is, that we should unify and come together and act responsible for the greater aspirations of the Nepali people. This first joint collaboration of the diverse groups gives me hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. May we all trust and prosper together to build Namuna Nepal .

Om Shanti!

Shakun Sherchand Leslie

18^th-Nov-07

 
Note:
This is a Well wishing Speech Delevered at a
Greater National Political Conference
For National Liberation Movement in Nepal
Organized by
Federal Democratic National Forum
Federal Limbuwan State Council
Tamangsaling Autonomous State Council
Madheshee People’s Right Forum, Nepal and
United Tharu National Front

On 18th November 2007
At Staff College Jawalakhel Lalitpur, Nepal

Limbuwan News, on 17^th  November 2007

Kirat Yakthung Chumlung [KYC] has successfully completed its Cultural Campaign Program along with Mass Meetings in different places of Limbuwan. This program was conducted for 17days.

It is conducted at 25 places of Limbuwan . The places were Tembe, Fungling and Sinam of Taplingjong; Yangnam, Feden and Yasok of Pa:nthar; Mangalbare, Fical and Ilam bazzar of Ilam; Pokhari bazzar of Sankhuwasabha; Sakranti, Po:klabang, Meyanglung and Shukrabare of Terhthum; Rajarani and Jorpati of Dhankuta; Dharan, Itahari and Chakkarghatti of Sunsari; Itahara, Pathari, Kerabari of Morang; and,  Prithivinagar, Durgapur and Dharampur of Jhapa District.

The campaign was launched from Kartik 7, to Kartik 24, 2064 (2007 Oct 24 to 2007 Nov 10) and leaded by four teams formed under Kirat Yakthung Chumlung.

 The artist of Limbu Cultural Council committed under KYC and local artists of Limbuwan had participated on the programs. Yakthung Samlo, Kelang and Ya,lang, etc.were presented on the program. Similarly to, the leaders of Chulmung and local personalities had expressed their views upon the issue of Limbuwan Ethnic Autonomy.

According to Yoga Raj Wanem, General Secretary of KYC, this campaign has helped to fulfill the present emerging  issue of Limbuwan Ethnic Autonomy for Federal Democratic Republican New Nepal through meaningful election of Constituent Assembly.

It’s My Personal View:
On 4 November 2007

In Nepalese politics what decided as so called agreement for Fully Proportionate Electoral Sysetm For Constituent Assembly[CA] and matter of Federal Republican is just an another drama of never doing CA in Nepal by these seven agitating parties. It doesn’t have any constitutional mean and use for the legal work of Government. It pushes the matter of Federal Republican Nepal farther than previously mentioned on Interim Constitution. Now, there happens the political polarization in Nepal. Only, a united force of excluded, marginalized, oppressed like Indigenous Ethinic People, Madheshi, Dalits, neglected regions and Woman, who have been facing a real griefs and sorrows on their life, Can give a correct and sustainable  solving way of this political, social and cultural problems in Nepal.

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By Mennisam Yapmi

Kantipur Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 29, 2007 
The Federal Limbuwan State Council (FLSC), an agitating ethnic group in eastern Nepal Monday put forth a 9-point demand to the government including the establishment of an autonomous federal Limbuwan state based on the ethnicity before the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections.
The FLSC came up with the demands in a manifesto issued at the end of its second central extended meeting held in Ilam district that lasted for five days beginning October 25.
The Council has warned of fresh round of agitation if the demands are not fulfilled soon. However, it has said that the protest programmes will be such that it would not affect the general public much.
An all-out Proportional Representation system is its other key demand.
Alleging those in the helm of power of putting the CA polls at risk, the FLSC demanded a guarantee of the CA elections.
It has also demanded that its activist Rajkumar Angdembe, who was killed by police in Jhapa district on October 7, be declared a martyr and a proper investigate be launched into the incident.
Expressing concern over the hike in fuel prices, the FLSC also urged the government to rollback the decision.
Courtesy: www.ekantipur.com

Limbuwan News, On 1 Nov 2007

In the course of analyzing the contemporary situation of Nepalese Politics, Federal Republican National Front, a united front of Federal Democratic National Forum. Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum, Federal Limbuwan Autonomous State Council, Tamagsaling Autonomus State Council and Federal Republican Front has decided that the present seven agitating parties are sinking in the same unitary mud and back warding conflict.

In a press issue, there is said that there is not being protected even the basic human right, citizen’s freedom and minimum agreements while seven parties are bargaining for their seats by wasting the entire resources and materials of the nation.

Front has condemned in the kidnapping case of a journalist Mr. Birendra Shaha by requesting the kidnappers to make him public soon.

Front has also added on its Press Release that the government should ask excuse from the people for their weaknesses and should address the issue of  declaring Republican Nepal before Constituent Assembly[CA] and the matter of Full Proportionate Electoral System for CA.

Limbuwan, 28 Oct. 2007
A Four Days long Extedend meeting of Limbuwan Autonomous State Council has finished with important decisions. Various Reports were presented by the council members at the meeting. This meeting mainly focussed it  discussion on ineternal issues of Council and Federal Democratic National Forum, an Umbrella ourganizatio of Limbuwan. It reviewd all of its movements done in Limbuwan. And, it has decided upon various issues. However, no immediate strikes are conformed. It will be decided and with the united meeting of Federal Democraticc National and Federal Republic Front soon.
The special decions will brought out on 29 Oct, through a press release.

You may be aware about the event of Pokhara, where 4 people were arrested by the administration with the charge of slaughtering of a cow and making Momo with the beef. Now they are released on condition that they present themself in the administration on tarik.  They were arrested on 10 th Ashoj. This type of events is repeating frequently like at Jhapa, Shakuwashabha, Solukhumbu, Nuwakot and Pokhara ets. According to a news paper (Blast) which is published from eastern region of Nepal, again same event has taken place at Ilam yesterday, yet to be confirmed.  
 
Nepal is multy lingual, multi culture, multi religion country, and the democratic government formed after the 2nd popular people movement has declared as secular state.  The intrim constitution has also stated as Nepal is a secular state. However the secular state mentioned in constitution not comes into practice. The government administration itself violating the rule of law resulted the Ips are deprived of their rights. This is a grate violation of human rights and we regrate of these events. We urge to the respective authority, not to repeat such type of events again.
Please find attached doc of press statement against the events and we would like to request you all for your solidarity.
 
 
Ujir Rana Magar
General Secretary
NGO Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN)
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