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Ethnic cleansing in Bhutan refers to acts of violence to remove the Lhotshampa, or ethnic Nepalis, from Bhutan. Inter-ethnic tensions in Bhutan have resulted in the flight of many Lhotshampa to Nepal, many of whom have been expelled by the Bhutanese military. By 1996, over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees (40% of Bhutan's population at the time) were ...
In 1990, violent ethnic unrest and anti-government protests in southern Bhutan pressed for greater democracy and respect for minority rights. [13] That year, the Bhutan Peoples' Party, whose members are mostly Lhotshampa, began a campaign of violence against the Bhutanese government. [13] In the wake of this unrest, thousands fled Bhutan.
It was an ethnic cleansing operated by Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavian communist partisans against Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians which forced 230000-350000 Italians to flee the former territories of the Kingdom of Italy towards Italy, and in smaller numbers, towards the Americas, Australia and South Africa.
Bhutanese Americans are Americans of Bhutanese descent. According to the 2010 census there are 19,439 Americans of Bhutanese descent. [4] However, many Nepali-Bhutanese came to the U.S. via Nepal as political refugees from that country and are registered as Nepali Americans; often leading to the actual numbers of Bhutanese Americans being underreported.
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Bhutanese refugees in Beldangi I show a Bhutanese passport. It is a legal passport of Bhutan that many Bhutanese refugees surreptitiously took with them when they were forcefully deported from Bhutan. Bhutanese refugees are Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a group of Nepali language-speaking Bhutanese people.
A new group is among the two political parties chosen by Bhutan's people to contest its fourth free vote since democracy was established 15 years ago, while the outgoing ruling party was knocked ...
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