When
envisioned, KSL was seen as an opportunity to bring three countries – India, China
and Nepal together to promote transboundary landscape cooperation. Given the complex
relations and administrative complications between India and China, all parties
agreed that Nepal is the neutral venue to run such activities and Dr. Krishna
Prashad Oli, a Nepalese national was selected as the Project Coordinator through
international competition.
However
within few months of visit of ICIMOD Former Director General Dr. Andreas Schild
to India in November 2009, who surrendered to save his position as Director General
and made ICIMD a typical pro-Indian organization, several arrangements were
changed:
- In January 2010, Dr. Eklabya Sharma, an Indian National was appointed as Acting Director Programme Operations (for two years) at ICIMOD ruling against ongoing recruitment process in which four international experts were interviewed for this post and one of them was supposed to be selected. This was the first case in ICIMOD’s history in which a non-candidate was given the post and all formal candidates who were more than capable were trashed for no reason.
- Despite extraordinary performance Dr. Krishna Prashad Oli (Nepalese) was replaced by Dr. Rajan Kortu (Indian) as the KSL Coordinator and role of Dr. Oli was minimized making him unable to do anything against the unfair management. To support Dr. Kotru, two other Indian Nationals - Dr. Gopal Rawat, Dr. Nakul Chhetri were added to the team.
- In December 2012, ICIMOD new Director General David Molden appointed most controversial Dr. Eklabya Sharma as full flexed Director Programme Operations without any announcement (please note Dr. Molden was selected as ICIMOD DG in June 2011 with strong reservation from Indian Government represented by Mr. Mr Tishya Chatterjee). ICIMOD staffs say, they were not even updated internationally about this decision. Interestingly, few months before this decision, Dr. Sharma was portrayed as Indian intelligence agent in a Pakistani newspaper. According to it, Dr. Sharma uses ICIMOD generated and managed data to develop plans against sensitive neighbors, mainly China and Pakistan and passes such sensitive information to India for further actions.
- Since then the team of Eklabya Sharma and Molden is running several activities against China for which Nepalese soil is used.
According
to sources, below is the list of ongoing activities:
- In the Indian side, Spiritual rallies and religious trips are organized aiming to develop religious extremism among the people who can then be prepared as rebellion for Free Tibet movement.
- In the northwestern districts of Nepal – Humla, Dolpa, Achham and Bajura, the team is forming group of people if Tibetan origin who can be mobilized against China in the name of Free Tibet movement.
- In Tibet, ICIMOD official are making unofficial visits to recreate Free Tibet movement among the Chinese Buddhists living in the areas close to Kailash. To keep their activities away from Chinese governments, ICIMOD officials travel to Tibet in Tourist Visa (in which other activities are banned), however they are heavily involved in social and scientific research defying norms of people traveling to China with Tourist visa. The illegal travelers include the ICIMOD DG David Molden as well who visited Kailash in September 2013.
These
are few suspicious activities we have recorded so far, but people believe there
is much more going on.
To
stop anti-China activities from ICIMOD, it is essential that David Molden and
Eklabya Sharma are suspended from ICIMDO and the KSL project responsibility is
given to Nepalese capable staffs. The Government of Nepal should take smart
steps to prevent conspiracy against our good neighbor China misusing Nepalese
soil.
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