Fears of reality spills (Editorial)
With the resettlement process of the exiled Bhutanese getting accelerating, Bhutan’s despotic regime sees greater challenges to hide its inhuman and barbaric activities of expelling its citizens.
The resettlement process, the stories of the exiled Bhutanese getting spaces in western media and increasing number of people and agencies getting facts of the Bhutan’s oppression against a section of people have brought more fears in the rulers on how to act in such a circumstances to hide the reality.
According to sources at the recently constituted cabinet secretariat, Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley is mulling over establishing diplomatic relations with countries involved in resettlement of Bhutanese evicted in 1990s.
If the plans go smoothly, Bhutan’s autocrats in ‘democratic mask’ will send their missions in Denmak, Australia, Netherlands, Canada and New Zealand sooner.
Through educational exchanges, the Bhutanese rulers have already initiated becoming closer with Australia. The recent film festival in US, bullying prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuk as the hero of the session, is one of the greater plans to win the Americans against the citizens who were expelled in 1990s and now being resettled in the US.
Despite seriousness expressed by the young king over the issue, Thinley is said to have objected over seeing the issue from other side. Royal family is pushed to support the ‘foolish’ plans formulated by Thinely. Government rejecting the words of King Jigme Singye who said 33 percent of those taking asylum in Nepal are Bhutanese, is fullest proof of under what pressure royal family is living.
On Saturday, Kuensel in its editorial expressing fear over spilling real stories of the Bhutan’s ethnic cleansing policy claimed all those resettled in third countries are non-Bhutanese. In reality, the western media have now more proofs to take doses about the suppression, inhumanity and ruthlessness prevailing in Bhutan.
The paper tried to misled with the result of the Joint Verification Team, that identified over 70 percent of the exiled Bhutanese living in Khuduabari camp have valid documents to prove their nationality — Bhutanese.
The resettlement process will not solve the issue of southern Bhutan in the way Bhutanese rulers have thought. Making them financially strong, resettled Bhutanese will have additional strength to bring the despotic rulers and ruthless regime to an end in the years to come. The suppression against these people will boomerang in the years to come. Additionally, Bhutan will be a scapegoat if it failed to act in the interest of US government in return for resettling exiled Bhutanese, which is unlikely under the pressure from Indian government.