YOB raises exiled issue at UN Assembly
New York (USA), August 18: The president of Youth Organization of Bhutan (YOB), Rajen Giri raised the long-standing issue of exiled Bhutanese during the open session in the Annual Youth Assembly at United Nations, which concluded on August 14.
A statement issued by YOB said, Giri urged the youth delegates, 996 global delegates in the assembly, to pay attention at ethnic cleansing by Bhutanese regime expelling over one hundred thousand citizens.
He sought support and solidarity from the delegation members to note the sufferings of exiled Bhutanese, awaiting early and dignified repatriation since last two decades, and work to end the impacts it has rendered on the youths, women and children in camps. Kazi Gautam/Bhutan News Service