Despite the fact that the Nepalese government resisted pressure to deport refugees already in Nepal to China, will deport those who enter Nepal in the future.
by Massimo Introvigne
28/01/2020
In the month of October, Bitter Winter reported that the president's visit Xi Jinping Nepal failed to persuade the authorities of the Himalayan kingdom, pressured by their own public opinion, to deport to China, under a proposed extradition treaty, to a large number of the approximately 20 000 Tibetan refugees living within Nepalese borders. It was an unexpected defeat for the Chinese leader, who reacted very angry. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never stops its policy of pressuring other countries against refugees escaping the religious persecution, as documented Bitter Winter in his film titled The long arm of the dragon.
This week, The international media found out de que Xi Jinping, despite all your protests, obtained a significant result, although secret, in Nepal. Rumors began to circulate that a secret agreement regarding Tibetan asylum seekers had been signed during Xi's visit.. The Nepalese Constitution stipulates that any confidential treaty signed by the Government with a foreign country must be disclosed to Parliament if it requests information about it.. Parliament asked the Government to report on the rumors. As a consequence of this, the nepalese foreign minister, Pradeep Gyawali, issued a written statement confirming that a confidential agreement had indeed been signed during Xi's visit.
According to the statement, The secret treaty stipulates that Chinese citizens (including Tibetans) Those who illegally cross the border into Nepal will be detained and deported back to China within one week. The provision violates an old “gentlemen's agreement”” between the Governments of Nepal, India and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (ACNUR), under which Nepal agreed to grant safe passage to Tibetan asylum seekers who escaped from China with the aim of settling in India.
According to the new agreement signed with the Chinese Government, Tibetan refugees who were already in China at the time the new treaty was signed will not be extradited or deported (for now, since the CCP does not give up this request either), but new Tibetan refugees crossing the Chinese border into Nepal will be sent back.
The CCP's War Against Peaceful Refugees Escaping Religious Persecution Continues.
Massimo Introvigne (born on 14 June 1955 in Rome) He is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and general director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars studying new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of around 70 books and more 100 specialized articles in the field of religious sociology. He was the main author of the Encyclopedia of religions in Italy (Encyclopedia of religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Religious Studies and the executive board of the Magazine New Religion edited by the University of California. Of the 5 from January to 31 December 2011, served as «Representative in the fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with special emphasis on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions» of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Of 2012 a 2015 He was president of the Observatory for Religious Freedom, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to monitor religious freedom issues on a global scale.
