Thread by @gurkha_rights

Today marks the deadline by all British Gurkha veteran groups for @NepalEmbassyUK @MofaNepal @DefenceHQ to give a deadline to set a date for a Terms of Reference meeting. If a date is not given, they may resort to drastic actions. These will be greater than 2021’s hunger strikes

Last week representatives from all Gurkha veteran groups met at @NepalEmbassyUK and made known their concerns. They asked for a date for a ToR meeting which continually kept being postponed. It was already alarming that initial plans were to leave them out of the ToR meeting.

According to HE Gyan Chandra Acharya, he has been asking the British government @DefenceHQ for a date but they are refusing to provide one. Gurkhas are asking for the very least a date for ToR- this is to lay out a road map of subjects to discuss in future G2G talks.

Ministers relevant per subject area can be sorted at a later stage when actual G2G meetings start mid September. A ToR meeting must take place beforehand so we know where we are heading. We are totally in on the dark and that is why Gurkha veterans are extremey upset.

G2G talks were originally scheduled in December 2021. While some delays are understandable, others are not. It is now August, over a year into hunger strikes and not even one ToR meeting. This is not acceptable to the Gurkha community.

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