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This
web site is intended for making an appeal to the conscientious
fellow Indians in India and international communities,
luminaries of international laws, luminaries of Human Rights,
individuals and organisations at home and abroad including the
Members of Parliament of India and that of Great Britain
for a consensus on
the relocation of the ethnic
Sikkimese Bhutias of Sikkim and Darjeeling hills of west Bengal.
Sikkim was annexed by India in 1973. The ethnic Sikkimese Bhutias have been facing obliteration as
Sikkim is gradually being turned into a Gurkha/Nepali state. The
report of the Commission for Review of Social Environmental Sector
Policies (CRESP) instituted by the state Government of Sikkim is
explicit. The
Legislative Assembly of Sikkim adopted the report of the
commission in June 2008 by a Resolution and submitted to
Government of India for order.
This
is a case where a member state of the United Nations Organisation
annexes a sovereign state and pursues obliteration of its people.
The obliteration of Sikkim and ethnic Sikkimese Bhutias was
initiated by Great Britain. They cultivated the Gurkhas/ Nepalese in Sikkim and Darjeeling
hills of Bengal in
the nineteenth century. Today
the Gurkhas are agitating for a separate Gurkha state comprised of
Sikkim and the adjoining Darjeeling hills of Bengal.
Great Britain and India still recruited the Nepalese as
Gurkhas in their respective Armies.
In view of this the relocation of the Sikkimese Bhutias
merited special consideration.
They have no representation in the parliament of India.
They have been disabled by Government of India even in the
Legislative Assembly of Sikkim by diluting
their ethnic identity and entity.
They have not been able to defend their case due to
political intimidation and lack of resources.
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