Beldangi, October 15: Beldangi-II branch secretary including other responsible members of the Bhutanese Refugee Women Forum (BRWF) have harassed Bhutan News Service (BNS) correspondent while trying to collect information on October 15. Secretary Devi Maya Adhikari denied reacting to the BNS query on the recent US announcement to allow about 60,000 exiled Bhutanese to its land. … Read more
Birtamod, October 15: Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs K. P. Oli said the meeting to be held between Bhutan and Nepal next month would take a final decision over the repatriation of the exiled Bhutanese. After a meeting with the leaders in exile in Birtamod on Sunday, Oli expressed his hope … Read more
Beldangi-II, October 10: Longer stay in unimproved camps and the escalating frustration and depression among the exiled Bhutanese have increased the cases of suicide. Ichcha Ram Koirala of Beldangi-II, sector E-3 committed suicide in his own hut on October 8. Witnesses say Koirala was mentally depressed. Koirala was employed in Royal Bhutan Army. Before forcible eviction … Read more
While Bhutanese refugees want to go back to their country after nearly two decades of exiled life in Nepal, the international community, especially the US, Canada backed by the UN refugee agency, have lately been repeatedly advocating for taking these ill-fated people to mesmerised western society. In her recent address to the annual meeting of … Read more
As preparations for the first political elections draw closer, the Delimitation Commission is in the process of charting out electoral boundaries for election purpose so as to give equal weightage to all voting zones. The Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan, Dasho Kunzang Wangdi, talks to BT on the progress made by his office in defining … Read more
Kathmandu, October 12:Peoples Forum for Human Rights and Development (PFHRD) Bhutan welcomed the recent declaration of US government to resettle Bhutanese refugees in America. “This is a positive development towards ending this long pending humanitarian problem. To live in refugee huts for such a long time without any guarantee of dignified repatriation and future is … Read more
Kathmandu, October 12: China said Thursday that soldiers posted near its border with Nepal clashed with some 70 people attempting to flee the country, killing one person on the spot and injuring two others, including one who died later of altitude sickness. The official Xinhua News Agency said the clash occurred on Sept. 30 — … Read more
Damak, October 13: Human rights leader Tek Nath Rizal has urged the exiled Bhutanese community not to be divided merely with the offer by the US government to resettle over 60,000 of them. He asked all to remain patient till the government of Nepal takes any decision over the matter. In a statement issued after … Read more
Kathmandu, October 13: Government of Nepal formally wrote to the Bhutanese government asking to sit for talks on issue of exiled Bhutanese. In a letter dispatched by the Nepalese foreign ministry on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K. P. Sharma Oli has asked the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, to … Read more
New York, Oct 11: A landmark United Nations convoy has brought the first group of nearly 25,000 Congolese refugees back home from Burundi in another sign of the gradual return to normalcy in the war-torn country. According to UN News Center, the group of 282 refugees, who had been living in the Gasorwe refugee camp … Read more