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Bhutanese refugees are Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a group of Nepali language-speaking Bhutanese people. These refugees registered in refugee camps in eastern Nepal during the 1990s as Bhutanese citizens who fled or were deported from Bhutan during the protest against the Bhutanese government by some of the Lhotshampas demanding human rights ...
21 wrz 2016 · Bhutan is the world’s biggest creator of refugees by per capita. In one fell swoop in the 1990s, the country expelled the Lhotshampa, an ethnic group with its origins in Nepal which made up...
The Nepalese-origin people, living in Bhutan (often referred to as ethnic Nepalese), truly fit into Sadako Ogata's description of refugees, who fled their country to escape the discriminatory laws of the Royal. Government of Bhutan (RGB) and took refuge in neighbouring Nepal.
14 paź 2016 · In the early 1990s, about 100,000 ethnic Nepalis in Bhutan were expelled or fled from the small Himalayan kingdom, leading to what Amnesty International has called “one of the most protracted...
Refugees from Bhutan. In the early 1990s, close to 106,000 Bhutanese refugees settled in seven U.N. supervised camps in eastern Nepal after being evicted from their homes in Bhutan when the government introduced a new law removing citizenship and civil rights due to ancestry. [2]
Inter-ethnic tensions in Bhutan have resulted in the flight of many Lhotshampa to Nepal, many of whom have been expelled by the Bhutanese military. By 1996, over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees (40% of Bhutan's population at the time) were living in refugee camps in Nepal. [ 1 ]
21 mar 2024 · The Bhutanese refugees were part of the largest resettlement programme ever undertaken by the UNHCR – over 100,000 refugees were resettled in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe. 1 Despite the scale of this resettlement project, roughly 7,000 refugees remained in Nepal.
