China hosting security training to deal with anti-China sentiments
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KATHMANDU, NOV 09 -
China is hosting a two-week-long training programme in Beijing from Tuesday to what sources claim reinforce its concern over anti-China activities in Nepal.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) said a team consisting of chief district officers of Kaski and Dolpa and officials from Nepal Police and Armed Police Force (APF) stationed in Rasuwa, Sindhupalchowk, Dolakha, Mustang and Solukhumbhu left for China on Monday to attend the event.
Security sources said the training was a part of China's larger campaign to stem anti-China activities arising due to the presence of Tibetans in Nepal.
In recent years, China has hosted several training programmes on security and invited Nepali officials. Past attendees say these programmes are a way to reinforce Chinese concern over growing anti-Chinese activities in Nepal.
The chief of the Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka, Ramesh Kharel, who left for China last week, is also attending similar training. MoHA Spokesperson Jaya Mukunda Khanal, however, said the training was a part of regular cooperation to bolster the country's immigration system.
China has been mounting pressure on the Nepal government to tighten security system so as to restrict Tibetans from carrying out anti-Chinese activities from Nepali soil. Chinese pressure in the run-up to the Olympics in Beijing in Aug. 2008 led to the deployment of around 200 APF personnel on the Nepal-Tibet border in Sindhupalchowk.
China has urged Nepal to deploy around 10,000 security personnel along the Sino-Nepal border to guard against fleeing Tibetans and infiltration into Tibet, according to security sources. Beijing has assured all possible assistance needed to make the arrangements. However, APF's feasibility study for the deployment of APF in Rasuwa and Mustang in mid-October shows that it would be a difficult task to guard the northern border mainly due to the jagged terrain.
Posted on: 2010-11-09 09:02
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