Bhutan: Forgotten Refugees

United Nations, New York, June 2009 - You can't work, study or live freely in the land of your forefathers - and you can't return to the land of your birth.
That's the sad predicament facing more than 100,000 people in refugee camps in Nepal who are desperate to return to nearby Bhutan.

[@tauthali]

its shameful for us, we couldnt welcome our own people, its really sad, our goverment make our own people refugee......

[@nathanhacking]

Home is Where the Heart Is; a new charity set up to help displaced people around the world. The project which we are asking for peoples help for is to make a documentary about life in one of the Bhutanese refugee camps in order to spread awareness and raise funds to set up an arts center there for the refugees to use their cultural skills to earn money via an online store without being exploited.

[@happybikash]

hey its not what is Nepal doing, rather Nepal being a developing country, helped bhutanese as their own people given place to settle them , but india n bhutan r the countries who had made them to flee to other countries as a refugee,, eg usa , canada denmark

[@TheSangay28]

@MrDolaphat So, if we Sharshops kicked you guys out from Bhutan, will Tibet give you a place to live in Tibet? You are also the purest breed of Tibetan dissents. How does it sounds if I said that?
Regards!

[@shakimcorrenthi1011]

Does anyone know the spelling of the name of the minister of information?

[@nisnabudas5497]

I come from the city of Damak,Nepal that has Beldangi,refugee camp.i think the information about refugees restricted to go outside refugee camp is false or may be was only valid during Nepalese civil war.

[@MexicanBoi164]

I like home.

[@sonamwangmo2607]

the nepalis own this worse situation by them self...since they live in bhutan our king want to follow the bhutanese culture but they didnt gave any dam to the govern of bhutan..... they live in bhutan n if the dont follow the culture of bhutan what does means?..should bhutan be divided it 2 ohh my god...
some nepalies are stil in bhutan they follow the culture n enjoying the beautiful nature of bhutan

[@normandyfrance1]

the dnager of a single story. The Narrator and the reporter should read Dixit, K. M. (1994). House of cards: fearing for Bhutan. Himal 7(4) July-August.
I do feel sorry for the innocent people who were carried away by the false promises their leaders made, but after this report, my opinions are divided.
Journalism 101: Be Objective, and we don't give a damn about what you think is happening.

[@tsheringbidha9143]

we love our king