How Bhutan turned its Nepali Citizens into REFUGEES | The Camps | Part 2

Bhutan 🇧🇹 presents itself as peace loving, progressive and happy country and yet it does not acknowledge its dark history. Some three decades ago, BhutanBhutan 🇧🇹 presents itself as peace loving, progressive and happy country and yet it does not acknowledge its dark history. Some three decades ago, Bhutan
Created one of the biggest Refugees Crisis in the World when it exiled almost 1/6th of its population as illegal immigrant. Almost all of them were “The Lhotshampas”, the Southern Bhutanese, who were from Nepali Ethnicity. They had been living there for generations with peace and then they were all exiled almost overnight.

In this second part, we will look at what exactly happened inside camps, why negotiations between Nepal and Bhutan never prorgressed and what lead to the resettlement in third country.

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Sources:

Articles and Books

1.Unbecoming Citizens (https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...)
2. The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan by Venkat Pulla (https://www.amazon.com/Lhotsampa-Peop...)
3. Bhutan’s Dark Secret: (https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/bhuta...)
4. http://bhutaneserefugees.com/
5. https://reliefweb.int/report/nepal/pr...
6. Human Rights Watch (https://www.hrw.org/reports/2007/bhut...)
(https://www.hrw.org/legacy/background...)
7.https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.co...
8.https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/r...
9.https://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countr...
10.https://thewire.in/external-affairs/i...
11.https://reliefweb.int/report/nepal/bh...
12.https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/co...


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