Mark Turin and Sara Shneiderman are right in their reply to Jeff Greenwald ('Letters', #152). Greenwald needs to recognise that his actions are ignorant and hypocritical. Let's face it, would he have cared if 18 Nepalis were deported from Tibet than the other way around? As a matter of fact, would anybody care? The old lady that has a nanglo stall at the corner of a street in Thamel had nothing to do with this deportation and neither did the small children who make a living by selling Tibetan balms to the tourists. Why does he want to punish these people? How about helping Nepali activists working to stop human rights violations, the poor treatment of Nepali prisoners in Thailand or the miscarriage of justice against a Nepali prisoner in Japan? Let Jeff Greenwald show his true colours.

Sushil Bogati,
Seattle, USA