US EditionForced From Bhutan, Deported by the US: These Stateless Himalayan People Are in a Unique Limbo
BHUTAN, JUL 19 – Over 30 Lhotshampa refugees have been deported by the US to Bhutan, which rejects them, leaving many stranded in Nepal refugee camps in legal uncertainty, experts say.
- Since March, the US has deported more than two dozen Lhotshampa back to Bhutan, where they were rejected again, leaving them in a legal limbo.
- In the late 1970s and from 1989, Bhutan introduced policies that led to the expulsion of Lhotshampa in the 1990s.
- Upon arriving in Bhutan, local authorities expelled all deportees to India, and many paid 30,000 rupees to smugglers to cross into Nepal after serving full US sentences.
- Many deportees have returned to Nepal refugee camps, Tikaram Dhakal said Nepal cannot accept them, and this crisis has sent shock waves through Bhutanese communities in the US.
- Nepal is in discussions with the US government to find a solution, while four deportees have been ordered deported by Nepal after illegal crossings.
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Deported to nowhere: Bhutan rejects refugees US sent back, it's a story of Lhotshampas
More than two dozen refugees from Bhutan were left in a limbo after they were deported from the US to their home country, but the Himalayan nation rejected them, leaving them stuck in a refugee camp in Nepal.
By Lex Harvey and Chiranjivi Ghimire, CNN More than two dozen refugees from Bhutan find themselves in a unique legal limbo after being deported by the US back to the small Himalayan country they fled, only to be turned away a second time. The refugees are Lhotshampa, a Nepali-speaking ethnic minority who were forced out of Bhutan in the 1990s. After decades in refugee camps in eastern Nepal, more than 100,000 of them were legally resettled in th…
Forced from Bhutan, deported by the US: these stateless Himalayan people are in a unique limbo
More than two dozen refugees from Bhutan have been left in a unique legal limbo after they were deported by the US back to the tiny Himalayan nation they once fled – only for it to reject them a second time.
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