“Nepal Finally Waves Away Refugees”

According to a posting on the Bhutan News blog, approximately 25,000 refugees left the Nepalese refugee camps this past month to resettle in several different western countries. Furthermore, the vast majority of the 86,000 refugees remaining in the Nepalese camps have signed up for resettlement in the west, and will hopefully be resettled in 2010. Thus far, the United States has accepted the largest number of Bhutanese refugees (22,060), followed by Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.

I was thrilled to read the headline of this blog post, as some Bhutanese citizens have been refugees for as long as 18 years. Ideally, I wish that all of the Bhutanese refugees could return to their native country and live peacefully without discrimination and oppression. However, since resettlement to Bhutan does not seem like a viable option at the present moment, I hope that the remaining 86,000 refugees will be resettled in a timely fashion to safe and accepting environments in new countries.

Please click on the link below to read the blog posting in its entirety.

http://bhutannews.blogspot.com/

The photograph was taken from “The Bhutan Reporter” web site.