The days which i passed is really
the interesting to me.my proud land Nepal it is the place of god which i
can't express by my single mouth,being refugee also i myself proud
because of the great happiness among all my friend who touch my heart
and the feeling.I my self recognize the day which i and others friends
selflessly help to the people being volunteer.Its so pleasant to express
this think by this sites.Hope like this you also enjoy.We are the same
flowers of Garland for 19 years it is also the best to express.We
together makes a Garland by having different races people in same.I
still remember the day which we inter Nepal from Bhutan it is really a
heartfelt conditions to all those who love there mother.But then also we
are sweing our tearing heart day by day which should done due to of
human natures.There is saying''if u need to change the world, u should
start from u then only world will change''which is express by swami
vikassananda.so by this thought i and the people they step towards the
three way which is not yet got satisfactory reason to three way
people.hope every people they reach to destination after few moments.The
words of vikassananda still touch my heart now a days also.Every human
beings should flow the way of god which is still unknown but most of the
people got that.which is peace among all.So i myself also hope for
peace and friendliness among all the races.now this world is challenging
with the ca races discrimination so be careful weather you also
running at the back of races.It is the bad thing to run after the races
or the discrimination.
A van belonging to weekly newspaper, The
Journalist, published from Thimphu was vandalized by unknown attackers
on mid night May 12.
The van was returning office after
dropping home on of the paper’s IT staffs, when it was hit at around
12.45 pm, as it passed the road above the golf course area in Thimphu,
near Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) building.
The scene of the vandalized van. Photo/Kuensel
Suspected to be hit by stone, vehicle’s
left window at the back seat and the rear window are badly shattered,
pieces of which fell inside the car. Driver and another staff in the car
remain safe. They immediately informed the police for investigation.
Newspaper editor Gopilal Acharya, however, suspects a stray bullet
might have hit the van though police say it is not.
Acharya is also the president of Journalists Association of Bhutan
(JAB).
It is the first incident of attack on press in the country. The
Journalist weekly is being published by the journalists who left Bhutan
Times in mass last year alleging managerial interference into the
editorial matters.
Meanwhile, the Association of Press Freedom Activist (APFA-Bhutan)
has shown deep concern towards the incident. In a media statement issued
by IP Adhikari, the president of APFA-Bhutan, it said that the attack
would not only derail the morality of the journalists, but also curtails
their safety and the right to information of the Bhutanese people.
“The government must investigate the incident thoroughly and punish
those involved in the attack. The government must also ensure safety and
security of the media persons,” reads the statement. Source: www.bhutannewsservice.com
A fire that broke out in Beldangi-I on the May 7th resulted around 250 peoples’ displacement.
The fire is said to be started from Sector-A/2 Hut No.202 which belongs to Padam Lal Biswakarma . But reasons behind the cause are yet to the knowledge of none. One of the family members of Biswakarma said that they noticed fire-break at once and were unaware of the actual cause behind it.
CARITAS Nepal, The Lutheran World Federation, AMDA Nepal, UNHCR and many other aid agencies including major donors reached the spot to sympathize and help the fire victims the next morning. However, involvement of Youth friendly Center (YFC) was appreciable this time too.
Besides estimated cash loss of around 20 lakh, refugees have losed their refugee identity cards issued by UNHCR and other important documents regarding ressettlement process. One of the Police personnels from camp based Armed Police Force attending the displaced said, “More than cash the victims have lost many things including their valuable documents”.
For now, the displaced victims including around three dozens of school children are taking shelter at Green Vale Academy. Besides the donor agencies, the other refugee residents from the same camp are putting themselves together to help the victims way out with their food stuffs.
May 3,The editorial board of popular ‘news blog’ producing news stuffs and
articles for and by Bhutanese refugees, has declared the closure for indefinite
period publishing a press release.
A release posted on the
bhutanusa.com cited, what they call as “technical and managerial issues” as the
reason to declare the closure of the site.
“The reasons arise out of the
fact that the time period of the registration of this domain has run out and
the web page designer (Himalayan
Web Info. Pvt. Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal) that was entrusted with
the task of developing the site to its final form and hosting it with a
different domain, globalbhutan.com, cheated us badly letting us not to blog
about what we have been doing for nearly one and a half years.”
However Himalayan Web Info. Pvt.
Ltd has not yet responded the issue.
Statement reads,” Back in 2008,
we conceived the concept of having a place in the internet to blog about the
tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and a vast majority of Bhutanese folks all
around the globe. Well, we came up on the final day of December 2008 with the
idea to have a web site on the issue, in fact the first of all diaspora sites
for Bhutanese created over the past with different intellectual perspectives
and scholastic efforts. We do not claim ourselves to be so scholastic and
precisely perspective thinkers in regards to working with Butanusa.com but we
did have a successful story in the past with an ever-increasing influx of
visitors, viewers, well-wishers and above all, our advisors who, in some way
served as beacon for our responsibility-laden ship to head its
way surviving the Doldrums on a vast ocean of
socio-political criticism and diverse ideological Tsunamis. In a
nutshell, bhutanusa.com prospered well ever since it was conceived by resettled
Bhutanese from third countries.”
Statement further reads,” Our
thanks are due to our valued visitors, our senior Bhutanese reporters,
Bhutanese intellectuals who supported us during hard times and above all, our
team members, who, amidst the busy and hectic schedules of their daily living,
worked devotedly to bring things updated on a regular and timely manner.
Rationally speaking, we always stand hand in hand working together for a common
cause of peace and happiness for people who are deprived of it. We still have a
long way to go together and not to end with this.”
According to the statement, the
site, Bhutanusa.com will be completely down from the mid-night of May 8.
April 27,Demanding their issues to be raised on the 16th South Asian Association for Regional cooperation ( SAARC) submit going to be held in Bhutan on April 28 and 29, Bhutanese refugees has begun protest today.
Protest lead by Bhutanese Refugee Repatriation Support Group (BRRSG), Bhutanese Elderly Refugee Repatriative Committee (BERRC) is organized at Beldangi and Khudunabari refugee camps. Refugees sit-in demonstrate in front of Refugee coordination Unit, Nepal government‘s representative office in camp.
Coinciding the submit,support group has send a memorandum to Indian Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh requesting to mediate refugee issue through Indian embassy Kathmandu today.
Similarly Bhutanese refugee leaders participated in a seminar on right to repatriation of Bhutanese refugees organized by south Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and Bhutanese Elderly Refugee Repatriative Committee at Bitamode Jhapa.
Whereas, six leaders among eight has reached to capital today, when one and half day left for submit.The first one to arrive in Thimphu was Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapakse. Rajapakse, who reached here this Monday, remained busy like other leaders in bilateral meetings yesterday.
Meanwhile, the fifth regional meet of South Asia Free Media Association ended in Paro yesterday. Altogether 174 journalists from SAARC countries took part in the regional gathering.
Organizers responsible to provide logistics to media persons are finding tough to allocate seats for some 300 journalists since the media gallery in NA hall just contains 106 seats.
When no seats are available, journalists will be allowed to enter the hall only when their leaders address the summit.
Enough property, land and
prestigious life of Kadel family in Burma (Myanmar) were always a source of
jealous for his neighbors. Kewal R. Kadel’s mother was a self-learned spiritual
jumping doctor (a woman who treats patient by praying and playing with the
ghosts; believed in the conventional Nepali society). They earned a big cash
and metallic wealth like gold, silver, brass, etc by treating sick people in
their locality. This made kadel’s family miss the feeling of pains and
sufferings while in Burma
during 1940s.
But nobody can predict the future. History of Black days for
Nepali ehnic people started in Myanmar,
Burma.
Suppression on Nepali ehnic Burmese during 1940s led a large number of Burmese
leave their country. Kewal, his mother, elder brother and sister had to leave not
only their land and property but their identity too.
And who knows all happiness is looted in no seconds. Sudden
bomb blasts from the sky terrified the province people. Burma – Japan conflicts
were on the horizon. Army fighters both in the sky and land were bombing and
firing which marked a big question in the lives of thousands of Burmese people.
All the bridges and entry-exit ways of the country were sealed. Kewal Ram and
his family dug an ‘L’ shaped pit under the ground and stayed there for twelve
months. But no signal of war conclusion was sensed.
They freed all their animals and
fare welled all the home workers. They kept all their property under the
ground. Tela Kadel, wife to Kewal Ram says, “Kewal Ram used to say; if I get chance
to visit my birth place ever, I would take out all those properties”.
With no transportation, a five year old child Kewal
desperately joined a very long, painful and tiresome journey to India with his
family by foot. The earth and the grass, the green water on the lake, the trees
near and far off hills, and the rocks and mountains were their friends along
their journey. It was a long way walk of two months to reach India. Along
with the Kadel family, a large number of Nepali ehnic Burmese moved to somewhere,
where they were themselves unknown of their destination.
Everyone’s legs were heavy. “But…”, Kewal’s eldest son Devi
Charan says, “…my father used to say that they felt a sense of being together
in a group sharing each others’ sorrows”. They inhaled peace slowly putting
themselves together along their way.
However, there were, for Kewal, no other options to escape
or avoid the unbearable pains of sharp pebbles and thorns on their way.
After all pain and sufferings, Kadel and many other families
who arrived India
were in halfway house to decide their final destination. As days passed some
choosed to go to Assam,
some to Megalaya, some to Sikkim
and Manipur and many other states of India. Among them, a large group
entered Nepal.
Still a group of Burmese refugees are found in Kakarvitta, Jhapa Nepal.
During their six months stay in India, Kewal’s elder brother left
mother and sister with him and vanished in Assam, India. The then, he never met his
brother. “But.”, his eldest son Devi Charan stressed, “…he felt his brother’s
affection when he met his sister inlaw in Nepal.
Kewal’s family then decided to spend rest of their life in Bhutan, a tiny
Himalayan country in South East Asia. Again
the same pain repeated, it took almost one whole month for their foot to reach Bhutan. They
were relieved when they reached Dagana district in Bhutan; a place which they called
their HOME.
Monarch – Tyrannical rule again ended up Kadel’s stay in Bhutan after
five decades of their entry into Bhutan. Democratic movement in 1990
AD demanding Human Rights and democratic systems in the country led one lakh
Nepali ethnic southern Bhutanese (Lhotshampas) migrate to Southern
Nepal as refugees. Kewal Ram with his four sons and five daughters
had to leave their mother (died) and sister (married) in Bhutan itself.
Miracles of his life sometimes may be distrust for somebody.
When Kewal Ram’s family entered Timai refugee camp in Nepal, the
other Burmese refugees were in Kakarvitta. (These two refugees are
approximately in distance of 20 kilometers). With the flow of time Kewal and
many other who entered Nepal
had a number of sons and grandsons. He became old and was suffered by asthma
and was in bed for almost one and a half decade. It was in July 2004 that his
physical existence left the earth. He struggled throughout his life to have
HOME but couldn’t. This credit is now left on his son’s shoulders.
Kadel family lived for around two decades in exile as refugees
in Nepal.
Finally, through resettlement program Kewal’s eldest son Devi Charan with his
family immigrated to Richmond,
Virginia state of USA in June
2008 followed by his other brothers. Devi Charan says, “ this long journey of
migrating country to country for safe and home, will definitely end now because
USA is believed to be a safe country where every people has equal rights and
nobody suppresses no one”. After a long breath he again added, “We have a
dignified life here”.
Devi Charan’s words are some of many sorrowful stories of
refugees around the world struggling for a safe place called HOME where they
can stay permanently with no pressures.
After a moment of thought for the concluding lines Devi
Charan concludes, “…let no generations pass a refugee life as we did”.
March 30, Armed Police Force (APF) has detained three
refugees along with Badal Thapa chief of relay March campaign. Along
with Badal, Tara Thapa and Dhan Bdr. Rai were caught by APF before
starting “relay mass to Bhutan” campaign from sanischare camp, Morang.
Whereas APF has stated that, detention is keeping in view of security
risk.
Chief Badal had informed public regarding the campaign two days
before through a press release. He added, campaign is organized to
pressurize Bhutan for repatriation and seek concern of international
community upcoming SAARC summit on April 28-29 in Bhutan. Political
forces in exile has not yet made any public statement on this regard.
Source said that,”march has set internal goal to enter Phuenstoling
Bhutan individually.”But detail road map including who and how will they
enter country is not made public. It is said that Camp based
repatriation support groups has support to the allies.
Relay march organized in 2007 had resulted loss of life and several
refugees were vandalized by Indian security forces. Despite of several
peaceful protests made by refugees Royal Government of Bhutan has not
taken initiation for repartition. Click here to see interview with Badal after his release.
