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19 lis 2015 · Eight years ago, some 108,000 refugees from Bhutan were living in seven camps in Jhapa and Morang districts in eastern Nepal. Today, just two camps remain and the refugee population now stands at less than 18,000 people.
- Bhutan's refugees to be resettled from Nepal within months
Slightly more than 100,000 refugees from Bhutan are...
- Bhutanese refugees in Nepal frustrated by lack of progress
After 14 years without a single refugee returning to Bhutan,...
- Bhutan's refugees to be resettled from Nepal within months
6 lis 2007 · Slightly more than 100,000 refugees from Bhutan are currently living in seven camps in eastern Nepal, some of them for as long as 17 years.
14 lip 2005 · After 14 years without a single refugee returning to Bhutan, tensions and frustrations are growing in the seven UNHCR-run refugee camps in eastern Nepal, which like many rural areas of the country, is affected by a Maoist insurgency.
Bhutanese refugee camps in Eastern Nepal: Timai, Goldhap, Khudunabari, Sanischare, Beldangi 1 & 2. The government of Nepal and the UNHCR have managed the below seven refugee camps since the arrival of the Bhutanese refugees in the 1990s.
20 lis 2015 · Eight years ago, some 108,000 refugees from Bhutan were living in seven camps in the Jhapa and Morang districts of eastern Nepal. Today only two camps remain and the refugee population now stands at less than 18,000.
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] Many have since resettled in Western countries.
Over 105,000 Bhutanese have spent 15 - 20 years living in UNHCR-run refugee camps in Nepal. Since 2008 a resettlement process has seen the majority of those living in the camps re-settled in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Bhutanese refugees now live all over the world. Yet their story is largely unknown.
