Timai, June 17: Bhutanese refugees languishing in camps here in Jhapa and Morang districts have been deprived of medical treatment owing allegedly to apathy from the referral committee comprising representatives of Amda-Nepal Damak, Amda-Nepal Birtamod, Mechi Hospital and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Due to delay in treatment, the condition of refugees urgently needing … Read more
Kathmandu, June 18: South Asian Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) has asked the Indian government to allow the exiled Bhutanese to get back to their country voluntarily through the Indian soil. In an appeal published, SAFHR said it strongly condemns the violent action taken by the Indian security forces against a group of people whose … Read more
Kakarvitta, June 18: India has tightened security along the border with Nepal in the east to avoid any exiled Bhutanese going towards Bhutan as part of the long march. On Sunday, the Inspector General of Police of North Bengal, R. J. S. Nawla, said reinforcements of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the West Bengal … Read more
Thimphu, June18: Bhutanese authorities have chosen from 164 entries the logo for the Coronation and Centenary celebrations of the wangchuk dynasty next year. The two winning entries were from Bhutan Times Ltd., which won Nu. 100,000 and Jigme Loday, an artist with the education ministry, who won Nu. 50,000, government mouthpiece Kuensel said. The chairman … Read more
Kathmandu, June 16: An emergency meeting of the Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee (BMSC), convened in Kathmandu on June 12, 2007, under the chairmanship of Tek Nath Rizal, has expressed serious concern on the martyr and wounded activists from bullet firing at the Mechi Bridge. The meeting also evaluated the NFD-Bhutan spearheaded peace program at Mechi … Read more
Full text of the memorandum given to the US Ambassador. June 15, 2007His Excellency Mr. James F. Moriarty,Ambassador,Embassy of the United States of America,Kathmandu. Your Excellency, On behalf of the Bhutanese refugee community, we would like to humbly express our gratitude to your Excellency for giving us this rare opportunity to express genuine expectations of the … Read more
Damak, June 14: National Front for Democracy (NFD), a coalition of Bhutanese political parties struggling for the rights and respectful repatriation of the exiled Bhutanese has said on Wednesday that it has postponed the Long March campaign for another one month. In a statement, its chairman Thinley Penjor said, the program has been postponed taking … Read more
On Sept 27, 1991, former Justice of the supreme court of India V R Krishna Iyer had aptly said: "The time has come for the people of Bhutan to liberate themselves from a tottering diadem, a tidy tyranny which is illiterate in its polity and have no rule of law". India had made tryst with … Read more
Kathmandu, June 11: India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukerjee's comments that Bhutanese refugees' homecoming could cause a demographic imbalance has angered refugee leaders, who called it regrettable and baseless. "Though we welcome India finally calling the Bhutanese refugee problem an international issue, we are gravely concerned at the Indian minister saying the refugees' return to … Read more
President of Bhutan Peoples’ Party Balaram Poudel has expressed his deep concern for statement given by Bhutanese Refugee Durable Solution Coordinating Committee (BRDSCC) regarding recent Beldangi incident. In a telephonic conversation with BNS Poudel said that he is particularly concerned with the accusation of BRDSCC that the interest of political party leaders is to keep … Read more