Camp people protest against US offer
Damak, March 18: Thousands of people in Beldangi camp have strongly protested against the United State’s offer of third country resettlement on Saturday.
Students and their guardians who participated in the protest program chanted slogans against the US government for proposing the resettlement offer. “We want to return homeland. Bhutan is our country” reads the placard.
The protest rally rounded three Beldangi camps chanting the UNHCR anti-slogans. They also demanded Nepal government to help expedite the repatriation process rather then approving the US offer.
Since the US coined the cocept of Overseas Processing Entity (OPE)last week, there has been distinct polarisation in the ideological stance towards resolving long-standing exiled Bhutanese issue.
Bhutanese Refugee Durable Solution Coordinating Committee (BRDSCC) has already lauded the US move. Bhutan News Service/Jeetan Subba