Featuring CSAS Grad Student, Janak Rai: "Indigenous Autonomy: History and Political Movements in Nepal"
The Federal Limbuwan State Council (FLSC) – founded in 2005- has been continuously staging political protests, demonstrations, long marches, general strikes, political schooling/instructions for the cadres and also recruiting the LVs (Limbuwan volunteers) in the last 7 years. FLSC’s has demanded that the territories within those 9 districts, namely Taplejung, Pachthar, Ilam, Jhapa, Terathum, Dhankuta, Sankhuwasabha, Sunsari and Morang be declared as Limbuwan Autonomous Province on the basis of the ‘Limbus’ historically specific political relations with the Nepalese state’ and ‘territorial identity of the indigenous nationalities’ of Limbuwan. More....
Release Date:
06/01/2012