Deported 10 refugees from the US have been sent to Nepal with the help of Indian security agencies after the Bhutanese government refused to recognize them as its citizens.
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Three of the 10 refugees who were 'deported' from America and landed in Bhutan have entered Nepal on Friday. They arrived at the Beldangi refugee camp in Damak, which they left about a decade ago, and were detained by the police on Saturday afternoon. Arrested Ashish Subedi, Santosh Darji and Roshan Tamang are currently being investigated at the Immigration Office in Kakadvitta.
Home administration officials are now in a quandary whether to allow them to stay in camps as refugees or send them back to Bhutan. "There is confusion whether to keep them or to send them," Govinda Prasad Rizal, Director General of the Immigration Department told Kantipur, "We have not reached a conclusion yet."
In the 1990s, about one and a half million Bhutanese who were driven out of Bhutan lived in refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang. A decade ago, they were resettled on the initiative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and went to America, Canada, Norway, Australia and other countries. Currently, there are around 10,000 refugees in Beldangi in Jhapa and Pathri-Shanishchare in Morang. Most of the refugees in the camp are staying with the intention of returning to Bhutan. "Most of us are hoping to give up rehabilitation and return to Bhutan," rights activist Dil Bhutani said, "We want to return to Bhutan until our last breath."
40 Bhutanese refugees were recently arrested from different states of America. According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the person was arrested based on old records related to criminal activities. After 2012, they were caught in a criminal case. More than 30 Bhutanese refugees in the state of Pennsylvania are in ICE custody.
After their arrest, the issue of 'deportation' destination has become complicated. The problem has become more serious after the Bhutanese government returned the 10 refugees who were returned to Bhutan to Nepal. The demand of the refugee side is that Bhutan should accept the 'deported' as its citizens and register them as citizens and resettle them in Bhutan. However, Dil Bhutani says it is impossible for Bhutan to accept them as citizens. "If Bhutan considered them citizens, they would not have taken them to the Indian border and left them," he says, "Bhutan has once again violated serious human rights." "We will soon decide whether to send them or keep them here," said Rizal. After the Bhutanese government refused to consider 10 refugees deported from America as 'its citizens', they were left in a water tank at the Nepal-India border with the help of Indian security agencies. It is not clear where the other 7 refugees are.
Recently, the US has included Bhutan in its travel restriction list. which is likely to directly affect Bhutanese refugees and their future. Behind the inclusion of Bhutan in this list is the tough approach of the US administration and its association with the criminal activities of Bhutanese refugees.
The Bhutanese refugee leader has expressed the need to raise his voice in favor of diplomatic pressure and a just solution in this incident.
"This incident has once again raised fears of an unsafe and uncertain future in the Bhutanese refugee community," Tilak Niraula, a Bhutanese rights activist based in the United States, said, "If this issue is not resolved quickly, the problem may become complicated in the future." He said that he drew attention. More than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees are currently living in the United States. Of which more than 70 thousand live in the state of Pennsylvania.
