Exiled Bhutanese demonstrate in Phuentsholing

Phuentsholing, September 07: Bhutan Police arrested 14 exiled Bhutanese demonstrators who recently entered Phuentsholing after evading the police.

Out of 51 who arrived here from the camps in Nepal, 14 had managed to enter Bhutan. Police arrested immediately after they started demonstrating showing placards and banners.

Aaiman Rai of Bhutan Gorkha National Liberation Front (BGNLF) had led the demonstrators.

The demonstrators chanted slogans against the discriminatory policies, ethnic suppression and mock democracy.

Human Rights Organisation of Bhutan (HUROB) and BGNLF have been launching such demonstrations since months. They run several demonstrations in Mechi Bridge in Nepal-India border.

The Bhutan Police arrested the demonstrators and handed over to Indian police. It has been learnt that some of the demonstrators are kept in Indian custody for investigation. Many of them were dropped back to Nepal.

This is the fourth attempt of exiled Bhutanese to stage demonstrations in Bhutan demanding their repatriation. Bhutan News Service