10 days until the next G2G talk on Gurkha grievances on 15 June 2023 with @NepalEmbassyUK and @DefenceHQ ! As we reflect on last month’s Gurkha events, we hope this new month will be different, with greater professionalism and mutual respect on the British Gurkha Case. 🧵8 parts To date, minutes of the 19 April G2G have still not been released to the Gurkhas. Any sensitive info from @DefenceHQ would be honoured if explicit agreements to classify and redact sections are made. However, it still should not take this long. @NepalEmbassyUK @khanalroshan83

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.

One year on and we are still waiting. Today marks one year since Gurkha veterans and widows were compelled to enter hunger strikes.

@HouseofCommons goes into summer recess and the Terms of Reference meeting between @NepalEmbassyUK and @DefenceHQ as promised is long overdue. From 21 July 2021, 13 days were set aside for a 24hr hunger strike relay in remembrance of the 13 Gurkha Victoria Cross winners.
@Gurkha_Brigade
@JohnnyMercerUK
@BWallaceMP

#LestWeForget
#Veterans
#respectourheroes
#britisharmy
#Legacy

Assistance to Nepal is appreciated, but we cannot mistake such announcements by @DefenceHQ and @LeoDochertyUK as consistent and adequate generosity for Nepal and its veterans despite similar statements repeated by the government in arguments against Gurkha pension increase 1/4

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1472948887455416323

The UK press featured stories and case studies of the Covid crisis in Nepal in June, Parliament also heard requests for support by @VirendraSharma
@NavPMishra
and more, but the declared 200 years of British-Nepal friendship did not speed up support 2/4 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

On Monday 22 November, UK Parliament will finally debate the motion ‘We demand that the Gurkhas receive equal pensions’ at 6PM. To mark this historic moment, former hunger strikers, Gurkha veterans, and supporters will be present outside Parliament from 4PM. @HoCpetitions @HouseofCommons #respectculture #Mindfulness #Buddhism #nepaliculture

“the UK is in the unenviable position of being the only country in Europe still imposing punitive restrictions against Nepal (including unconscionable quarantine charges) – in spite of the much lauded over 200-year-old diplomatic relationship between the two countries.” A thread

https://twitter.com/BritainNepalAC/status/1442451905079300096

BNAC @BritainNepalAC statement extracts : "The puzzling continued inclusion of Nepal on the red list has huge implications for the 100,000 strong Nepali diaspora in Britain, including Gurkha regiments in the British army, who have been separated from loved ones for two years"

"Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you"Sir Ralph Turner MC. May these words engraved on the memorial of the first Gurkha Victoria Cross winner Kulbir Thapa Magar, ring true to honour the living as much as the dead. Unveiled on September 25 at Princes Garden, Aldershot, the town also home to the British Army, it was a proud moment for Nepalis in Britain and worldwide.

Media Watch thread Pt1: Media produced spin about Joanna Lumley from an article by @WalesOnline published online 3:40am. She never contacted any of the hunger strikers or anyone on the Gurkha Satyagraha team (BGSUSC)formally or informally before, during or after the hunger strike News outlets got carried away with the story without verifying anything with connected with Gurkha Satyagraha or Gurkha organisations. The articles also reported that the hunger strikers belonged to ‘Support Our Gurkhas’, a facebook group run by lovely British public supporters