Bombs in Bhutan stir refugee crisis

Bombs in Bhutan stir refugee crisis
By Mohan Balaji

CHENNAI - The orchestrated bomb blasts that detonated on Monday in the capital of Thimphu and three other locations across Bhutan are a powerful reminder of the simmering refugee problem that has long plagued the ruling government and tarnished the reputation of the tiny Himalayan kingdom often referred to as Shangri-La.

According to Bhutanese police, the explosions were suspected to be linked to one of three militant organizations based in Nepal - the Bhutan Tiger Force, the Bhutan Maoists Party and the Communist Party of Bhutan.

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I consider myself fortunate to get a copy of your write up titled "BHUTAN'S PROBLEM WITH MOAIST INSURGENCY GROUPS, MIL" dated March 26, 2010.In your write up as an eminent journalist I would like to express some of my reservations.

First of all as an International Journalist of your stature, it would be wise to turn down the pages of history, analyze and present the facts on Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal without being biased.

 In your article you mentioned:

Girija Prasad Koirala no more, funeral with state honour tomorrow

Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala who made a substantial contribution for the country’s democratic movements has breathed his last at his daughter’s residence in Mandikhatar at 12:10 pm Saturday.


The NC central advisory committee made the formal announcement of the death of the veteran Nepalese leader Koirala after consultations with doctors attending Koirala’s health.

A senior NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba told reporters after attending an emergency meeting that the dead body of the freedom fighter Koirala will be kept at Dashrath Stadium from 8 am to 2 pm for final tributes by political leaders, party cadres and the general public. The funeral procession will then be taken to the Pashupati Aryaghat where Koirala’s corpse will be cremated with state honour, added Deuba.

Letter to Laloo

Laloo Prasad sent his Bio Data - to apply for a post in Microsoft Corporation, USA.
A few days later he got this reply:


Dear Mr. Laloo Prasad,
You do not meet our requirements. Please do not send any further correspondence.
No phone call shall be entertained.

Thanks
Bill Gates.

Bhutanese Profile

Country of Origin, History and Politics

The Nepali Bhutanese, or Lhotsampas (“People of the south”), are a community of approximately 120,000 ethnically and culturally Nepali people. The first report of Nepalese origin in Bhutan was around 1620 when Shamdrung Ngawong Namgyal (a Tibetan lama who unified Bhutan) commissioned a few Newar craftsmen from the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal to make a silver stupa (monument) for his father, Tempa Nima. There are no references to any further movement of people from Nepal to Bhutan until the beginning of the 19th Century.  They were invited to populate the lowlands of southern Bhutan in the mid- to late- nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Contact between the Druks (Bhutanese) in the north and the Lhotsampas in the south was limited.  Despite living in Bhutan for up to five generations, the Lhotsampas retained their highly distinctive Nepali language, culture, and religion.  However, they did participate in public life and politics, even attaining positions of significant leadership.