A Regional Policy Dialogue was held at New Delhi beginning 2nd May for 3 days. And Kuensel shared a piece on it in its Monday issue ( 7th May, 2018 ).
The highlights of BBIN- MVA.
1. The Truck routes covered under BBIN - Motor Vehicle Agreement are known as the " economic corridor ".
2. This " economic corridor " has more women engaged in activities. Mostly widows and elderly not young women afraid of security concerns.
3. The risk of diseases like HIV and other communicable disease are high.
4. Women would remain more vulnerable especially in sex industries.
So it seems Bhutanese women can look forward for close and flourishing economic activities of sex with truck drivers from Bangladesh, India and Nepal once the BBIN- MVA is ratified by Bhutanese Parliament.
The PDP government was unable to get the BBIN- MVA Treaty ratified in the 1st attempt. Would the next Government go for the sex industry under the guise of women run economic corridor of multi- racial and multi- national truck drivers ?
DISGUSTING is this BBIN- MVA ( BANGALADESH , BHUTAN, INDIA and NEPAL - MOTOR VEHICLE AGREEMENT ). The mini- SAARC's first joint venture is directed against women.
Safer for women to abolish BBIN.
I suggest Mr. Sangey contact Ron Unz of http://www.unz.com/ and be a guest writer for his website. I am sure he is always looking for new writer. According to the site's statement:
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Mr. Sangey perspective will definitely provide an alternative view different to the main stream media (MSM), especially on subjects regarding India.
Bhutan's affair of course is of no consequence to the world at large but India certainly does, just because of its size. The Americans have a very warped view of India (peaceful vibrant democracy not to mention all those spirituality nonsense) due to ignorance and ideological blind sight and Bhutan's proximity to India and decades of dealing with it will certainly expose a certain side of India rarely known to people in far away countries.
Educating Americans on India is one of the ways to strengthen Bhutan's sovereignty and independence and I am sure having a presence on unz.com will garner a wider readership than this blog alone.
If whichever parliament ends up ratifying BBIN, we may as well spit on their faces and give up. I don't know why India is still putting pressure on Bhutan to join this. It makes very little difference(economic or otherwise) to the Indians or the Bangladeshis whether a few hundred of their truckers can ply Bhutanese roads unfettered. However having Indians, Bangladeshi and Nepali truck driver run unfettered on Bhutanese roads is going to have huge effect on Bhutan as you alluded. The brothels along truck stops in India are something that are very well documented in National Geographic articles as far back as 30 years ago; to say nothing of the horrific rapes that are in the media daily.
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