Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Anxiety, search and curiosity are rampant in Nepal among the political, diplomatic and media circles about the release by Wikileaks of a cache of more than 2,600 classified and non-confidential documents related to Nepal.
According to the website, the dossier has 2,278 memos sent by the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu to the U.S. State Department. Eighty-four of those memos were labeled secret and 1,399 confidential while the remaining 795 are unclassified.
Although none of the memos on Nepal were released Sunday, the whistle-blower website said it would be releasing the embassy cables “in stages over the next few months.”
A Wikileaks report says the documents date to 1995, with almost 1,200 tagged with PTER (Prevention of Terrorism). There are 339 with the specific tag “Maoist” or “Maoist Insurgency.”
Likewise, the issue of Bhutanese refugees and trafficking were found as key words associated with Nepal.
Nepal’s UCPN (Maoist) party is still listed as a terrorist group by the United States, even though the Maoists say they have been part of the political mainstream since 2006.
“Just one of these developments would be enough to alter a country’s national identity. Taken together, they are redefining Nepal, and Nepalis are still deciding exactly what that new definition will be. How will you choose to govern yourself, to share power, to share resources? How will you address the needs and aspirations of a population strikingly different in ethnicity, language, faith, economic and social status? How will you heal the wounds of 10 years of conflict?” the U.S. ambassador to Nepal, Scott DeLisi, recently told a gathering in Kathmandu.
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