For the first time in two years the democratically elected government of Bhutan is opening its mouth on the refugee issue, for long labeled as the issue of the “people in the camps in Nepal”. There has been sequence of heavy pressures on the new government from various sides.
Last month Foreign Minister Ugyen Tshering traveled to Washington to hand over the assignment which carried the bulk but a little content. The long report had one thing half positive. That was willingness of Bhutan to open an educational and cultural consulate in Thimphu instead of a full fledged US embassy. The shy FM met with Senator John Mc Cain and requested him to forward the assignment to White House. It was refused. The ultimatum must have been renewed or extended, or even warning must have been issued, Ugyen delegation returned with heat strong enough to make the leaders go rest less.
They sought help of south block in Delhi, India, to crack new ideas to fool US and prolong the tact. Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram had to rush to assist Bhutan’s ministers in the new chase move. On his way to Bhutan he used the transit time in Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu by calling an emergency meeting with Nepal’s Home Minister Bhim Rawal and cautioning him to prepare for an immediate bilateral talk with Bhutan on the issue of the exiled Bhutanese. This unusual meeting of two home ministers during the usual transit of Druk Air in TIA was sufficient indicator of heat in the rulers.
Not a coincidence Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley rushed to Japan to meet Sadako Ogata, one of the former heads of UNHCR. During her leadership in the refugee organization, Jigme Thinly as a minister under the former Monarch Jigme Singye Wangchuck had developed a warm rapport with her. She was even invited to Bhutan to strengthen the intimacy. Now she is one of the most powerful figures who can be a right third person to suggest and influence on the issue of exiled Bhutanese and possible say to the pressurizing parties what Bhutan rulers want to say.
It is noteworthy to recall that immediately after her visit to Bhutan; she visited the refugees in camps in Nepal and assured them that she would see all the refugees back in Bhutan during her tenure.
What next? Now, out of many strategic moves designed, one would be to call for a positive dialogue with Nepal on the issue of exiled Bhutanese. The government in Nepal is right for the Bhutan to deal with, as Nepalese Prime Mnister Madhav Kumar Nepal is as good a friend of Bhutan’s rulers as Sher Bahadur Deuba who had agreed for Bhutan’s proposal to categorize exiled Bhutanese into four groups.
If anything is possible, bendable, melt-able and strike-able, it is now. So let’s expect Bhutan and Nepal will sit for a new round of talk and give pretext to the world to say that the work is going on for repatriation of the citizens expelled two decades back. However, for the exiled Bhutanese, there is not much to get excited right now.
You are a paper tiger who spent much of your time chasing after your fortune selfishly. Now you sit at the comfort of your computer and speculate whatever your peanut size PhD brain can imagine! Its because of people like you who misled the innocent people, made hue and cry, made unreasonable blame against the government, and destroyed the image of people suffering in the camps.
Now that some sorts of solution is being seen to the long festering problem, you became restless because that will put an end to your propaganda. What if John Mcain advised Bhutan otherwise? What if he said Bhutan not to worry about the refugees and promised that he will lobby congress to resettle all refugees in the USA? What if John Mcain was in Bhutan to learn more about the ideals of conservatism, or even the GNH? Write something that will hold some water.
Don’t let yourself fool when you try to fool others. The world may have become smaller than you may think. Other than those you speculated from thousands of miles away sitting in the back of your computer, there was no adverse report about the visit of John Mcain and his team and followed my Collin Powell and Condolizza Rice.
As per your logic, every high level officials’ visit from another country to Bhutan is to pressurize the government of Bhutan about the refugee, democracy and what not. What a nut?! Is this all what a person who claims to have PhD can think about? What a cheap shot!
Nextime around try writing something logical. Try writing based on facts; just not speculate.
Laudable job Dr Rizal!
Keep it up to excavate more information on Bhutan and her so called democratic custodians.
Rose,
How clearly it is showing that your peanut brain too is shaking with the minute reality of the truth. If you have otherwise points to counteract the writer, why cannot you put on here.
How selfish and timid is your character is clearly shown by you hiding your real name and taking the name of a westerner. I am changing my name to challenge your comment but not for the reasons like yours because your boss will sack you if you do reveal your name… that is the freedom you in in now????
We seek open help from the west whereas you seek begging help by hiding your identity, putting propaganda of GNH and discriminating the innocents.
Juts keep this article of Rizal and wait for few years and you will see the truth.
The last thing everyone wants is truth come out, the truth that you have changed the names of all southern villages, gewogs and important icons. If you are so true why you change the names? How mean is your mentality, did you learn such cunning tricks from the teaching of Buddha??or your …..???
Lets wait and see
Hello everyone,
Who is this Rose, anyone knows? This is the paid agent by Royal Government of Bhutan and is asked to vehemently use propaganda against the atrocities and ethnic cleansing by the Wangchuk dynasty and the puppet regime of Prime Minister, Jegme Thinley whose son is married to 4th King’s daughter. The so called democracy in Bhutan is FARCE as the PM is King’s in law and still today the Kings are most powerful in Bhutan, the only country in the world with 2 Kings at parallel. The 4th King recently handpicked his body guards and appointed Ambassador to India and the chairman of Royal Civil Service Commission is also handpicked by 4th King though he served for many years as Minster and high post in civil service. Now there is a high speculation that all ex Ministers will be reinstated by Kings since they fear that they might speak the truths of fake democracy and atrocities to its own citizens.
The only county in the world that has 2 Kings and 4 wives of 4th King and has captured all best lands and properties in the country. Recently, there is standing circular that no one can buy foreign cars except the Ministers and the Royals and all the rest of the citizens should buy car from the car dealer owned by King’s in laws who have all best industry properties all over Bhutan.
There are hundreds of northern Bhutanese who have prosperities in Nepal, Sikkim-India, USA and Europe and yet their citizenship is also intact in Bhutan, whereas recently the southern Bhutanese mainly Nepali speaking did vote in India election and their citizenship stripped, ID cards confiscated, family thrown out of Bhutan, although as per UN article and claws, any national of the world can have 2 or more citizenships of any country. Though Bhutan is UN member but they never adhere to UN articles and charters but the fact is that many northern Bhutanese of ruling regime has citizenship of USA, Europe, India, and Nepal. So the rules are only for particular ethnic of Nepali speaking in southern part of Bhutan where even today the properties and land holdings are re-distributed to northern Bhutanese now and Royal Bhutan Army raped women and children in southern Bhutan and looted the properties, vandalized homes, killed many children and elderly people by brutal armed forces of Bhutan!
So my warning to any readers is that Mr., Rose, is just the intelligent agent of Royal Government of Bhutan and if his articles are there, then, he is canvassing all the worst and blatant lies under the carpet of gross human rights violation of its own citizens. That Gross National Happiness is such a FALSE foolery to the outside world, where 80% and above the population live with 50 UD dollars per day and 96% of the total population are not with electricity and road access and health care facilities. That Gross National Happiness is an eye wash to the outside world to get donor driven philosophy and act as mockery to the justice and human rights violation in the country,
So, hope all the readers will read the accusations of Mr. Rose who is none but agent of Royals and puppet government of Bhutan.
To my understanding, whoever the bullshit Mr Rose is, is a timid stupid who cannot distinguish himself and cannot survive with shrunken head to Jigme. You are totally paid for your write up, which is very common there. How do you claim that diplomats are there for merrymakings and not to pressurize your government? Their time is too precious to visit there and date with uncivilized princes which are more than dozens. What is special there for your GNH which is claimed to be coined by a person who never passed grade 10 in his whole life? How coward is he as he himself said that he married all those girls thinking that he need to bow to others. If he can be that junky how can he dare to claim GNH?
The issue is not of support or oppose, here the concern is your attitude. How can you claim there is democracy in Bhutan when you cannot resist the opinion of a person? You have show your actual bhotey character.
Welcome Kado, welcome with truth and peace to our wonderful homeland. Rose will still continue to remain blooming and beautiful, with pricking thorns on her to guard her charms. We shall live together thereafter with peace, truth and beauty the world desires to look at. Your love and longing of the motherland is wonderful!!
Who is this Rose?????????????????????????????????????????
He recently came to know that…….he got paid.So,if anybody find him…………don’t leave.
OK OK We should also be sure what we are talking. If tings are true and facts, we will certainly bring them forth BUT if we are believing in hearsay and depending more on our own personal logics, we should be able to stir ourselves from it before our credibility falls to low. We all know many of us including the so-called top brass of our movemnet like to gossip, bluter illogical ideas, brag off and even manipulate the mass. we have seen it enough very clearly and we are seeing it now. I am still wondering if I should believe what Rizal ji above is talking about. I am also saying this because I have also read a couple of other articles written by him.