Bhutan/Nepal: A solution for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal?
ref: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/02/27/nepal253.htm
(02/27/01) – A recent breakthrough in talks between the governments of Nepal and Bhutan promises new hope for tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, but significant questions remain about how Nepal and Bhutan will carry out the proposed verification and repatriation of the refugees.
Nepal is the site of one of the world’s most overlooked refugee dilemmas. Forced to flee Bhutan for Nepal and India in the early 90s, more than 90,000 people are now entering their tenth year of life in the refugee camps in Nepal. A whole generation of children has been born there. Many of the refugees, mostly ethnic Nepali Hindus who farmed the southern hills and plains of Bhutan, were arbitrarily stripped of their nationality prior to their expulsion from Bhutan in the early 1990s after changes to Bhutan’s nationality laws that deliberately discriminated against the southern Bhutanese.
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