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The violent country where its own people went for civil war and some political consensus has been restored by the help of a special mission of United nations mission to Nepal in 2006. Since then in different time and period of time political parties and the government headed by those parties are blaming UNMIN being unfair to them. This time The government has expressed serious concern over United Nation Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)’s statement on February 25, in which UNMIN has mentioned it cannot provide information on Maoist combatants citing such information as ‘very confidential.’

The Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction issued a press statement Wednesday saying, the government had taken UNMIN’s statement seriously and considered it inappropriate.
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The War on borders between two neighbors in different part of the world is becoming a history nowadays. for an instance we can take the example between Palestine and Israel, Britain and northern Ireland, Somalia and Ethiopia, India and Pakistan and many to add in the list. Some of those wars was a nice script to produce as a documentary or as movie and shown patriotism of some brave solders. similarly now the same story is going to seen on Nepali silver screen soon.

The start of the new decade will see more film makers training their cameras on border clashes — this time between India and its neighbor Nepal to tell the story from the Nepali perspective.

Two Nepali film directors have completed shooting for their new feature films that focus on the tribulation and insecurity faced by Nepalis living in what is now no man’s land after the boundary between the two countries was affected by rivers changing their courses.

India and Nepal share an 1,800-km open border, which is mostly delineated on the basis of rivers and, in some areas, border pillars, which are often in a state of ruin.

There are border disputes in over 20 of Nepal’s 75 districts, the most serious being in Kalapani and Susta.

Kalapani is an area in Nepal’s eastern Darchula district, on the borders of India, Nepal and China. Since the Sino-Indian war of 1962 Indian troops have held Kalapani.
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Nepal a multi cultural multi ethnic country has many tribes and triumps. Among them are kiratas.
Kiratas-Mongloid in race first appear in the Yajur Veda (Shukla XXX.16; Krisha III.4,12,1), and in the Atharva Veda (X.4,14), 1500 B.C – 1000 B.C

The term “Nepal” is first found in ‘Atharva Parishista’ (4th Century B.C.) derived from a Tibetan word “Nebal.”
Suniti Kumar Chatterji, the Chairman of the Asiatic Society and a professor at the Calcutta University in India, has verified this historical fact. In the Tibetan language Nebal means “a house of wool”.

The term “Kirat Desh”or Kirat Country is found in the earlier documents such as Veda and other ancient Hindu texts. The Kirat Desh extended from Himachal Pradesh, in northwest India, Nepal(central) to Tripura(east) and all the way to Chittagong in the south as mentioned in Veda and other ancient hindu texts. Today Kirat people live in Nepal, Assam and Sikkim.

Interestingly there are still find mon khmer Kirat ethnic group in Himachal Pradesh.
You can google ” mon khmer kirat” and you know what i am talking about.

This site gives information about Kiratas civilization in the Himalayas.

http://www.tripura.org.in/origin.htm

Secondly the Sanskrit meaning of Kirata in the first place is indigenous with phrase “kiram atati bhramati yah” meaning one wandering over the forests and mountains. Therefore the indigenous nationality of Nepal are Kiratas.

G.P Singh had already identified the Newaris, Gurungs, Magars and Lepchas as Kiratas beside the usual Rai & limbu.
He even stated that the Thadus or Tharus occupying the Tarai region from Nepal and eastern Rohilkhanda along the frontiers of Oudh to Gorakhpur are supposed to be identical with the Kiratas.(The Kiratas in Ancient India, 1990)

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