The administration is confused about whether to "keep or send" Bhutanese refugees who have been deported from America and entered Nepal illegally. The District Administration Office, Jhapa, said that the discussion on what to do with the Bhutanese refugees is continuing.
Friday afternoon from Beldangi Camp The arrested Ashish Subedi, Santosh Darji and Roshan Tamang were arrested by the police and kept at the immigration office Kakdvitta.
10 refugees deported from America to be considered by the Bhutanese government as 'its own citizens' After rejecting them on Friday It was left in a water tank on the Nepal-India border with the help of Indian security agencies.
Assistant Chief District Officer Suresh Acharya He said that discussions are being held with the Immigration Department on whether to keep them or send them back. "Discussion is going on," Acharya said, "It has not been decided whether to keep it here or to send it." According to
refugees, Bhutan is not ready to accept them even though they are Bhutanese citizens. In the 1990s, about one and a half million Bhutanese who were expelled from Bhutan lived in the refugee camps of Jhapa and Morang in Nepal.
A decade ago, they were resettled by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and went to America, Canada, Norway, Australia and other countries. Now there are around 10,000 refugees in Jhapa's Beldangi and Morang's Pathri-Shanischere.
America recently deported 40 refugees on charges of involvement in various criminal activities. Out of which 10 people came down to Bhutan on Friday. However, after Bhutan refused to recognize them as citizens, they were taken to the Indian border and released.
Even now some refugees want to return to their motherland. But, Bhutan has so far given them Citizens have not refused. Because of this, they are still forced to live as refugees.
