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Forgotten Refugees


Every moment is surounding by cloud
Every second, minute and day
The people of my land
Leaving you
Saying good bye forever
Bringing with the too much love
But, o my land
Don’t loose your heart
Yes
The time will change
Day and night will be changed
For the freedom Human rights should be constituted
For the human
You know my land
The sorrow of extreme torture
Invites the explosive demonstration Who is responsible for this?
The injured souls
Will carry the flags of freedom
The darkness of the prison
Will bring the light of determination
Every drops of tear
Will roar the justice
Every drops of blood
Will write a golden history with flood
Every dead body of martyr
Will bring up the revolution
The sound of guns
Will defeat the dictator
Then
You will see your every offspring
Inside your lovely yard
So please my land Yes...uncertain future...
You must have courage a lot
And don't loose your heart
Please don't loose your heart Bhutan...


Refugees are not born but created by states, individuals and groups. the issue of human rights and the problems of refugees are inextricably linked. The vast majority of refugees are driven from their homes by human rights abuses. Persecution, torture, killings and the reprehensible practice of 'ethnic cleansing' generate huge flow of refugees. The Nepali-speaking Southern Bhutanese refugees just fit in that description. They were driven off from their homes by the racist Bhutanese government since 1990.

Over 134,000 of Bhutanese citizens, approximately twenty percent of Bhutan's total population are now living in the refugee camps, outside of camps in Nepal and India. Bhutan is thus, responsible generation of highest per capita refugee in the world. While refugees from such countries as Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan and former Yugoslavia were victims of armed conflicts or civil war, refugees from Bhutan were forced to leave their country not because of civil war or foreign intervention but because of the racist and ethnocentric policies and feelings of the Government against the Nepali-speaking citizens of southern Bhutan, called Lhotshampas. They have become victims of the government's racist and 'ethnic cleansing policy.

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