Posted by: sukla March 30, 2011
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I agree : more than 90% of refugees under 40 years age have extremely negative feeling towards Nepal and nepalese people. This is because of the flow of wrong information / unmet expection and bitter experience while they were enclosed in camps in Nepal. They forgot Nepal did not open boarder for Bhutanese refugee, India dumped them in Nepal. But this "Nepal-hating-generation" does not know the Bhutanese atrocities. They just know the discrimination toward them in Nepal, the trouble from nepalese police, and the greedy nepalese society.
I sent about a dozen staffs to eastern Nepal in 1999. These staffs badly consumed girls from the refugee camp taking advantage of their poverty. Some educated bhutanese wanted to work genuinely, but they had to struggle a lot, hide identity, or beg mercy of some others from the local area. People treated them worse than untouchable. I felt so bad knowing about that. Later in 2006-2007, people were competing to marry girls from the refugee camp as they knew these people are going to get green card / residence permit of developed countries. What a low mentality of the society?
From the beginning, Bhutanese leaders were aware that Nepal is not capable to help them, Nepal won't be lifting up from their problem. But, due to politics, money-play, and high-level diplomacy, they provided sponsored wrong information to the general refugee mass , -- we will solve this problem with the help of Nepalese government, we will solve this problem with international help, we have Nepal in our side etc. -- which might have helped to keep their hopes alive. However, the truth was something else.
Bhutanese establishment clearly wanted to keep them out of country so that others remaining in Bhutan will live in constant fear. India wanted to keep them out of Bhutan to make their hydropower deal on Bhutanese soil and check some terrorist organization close to Bhutanese boundary. We have seen that the Bhutanese refugee leaders were divided. May be, some of them were even secretly working for India and Bhutan. That is why, there was deadly fights outbroak even in their refugee camps.
On the other hand, Nepal government did never have a clear interest or policy on the Bhutanese refugee issue. Sometime it acted to please India, and sometime to avoid international pressure. Probably Nepal government was more on bringing UNHCR and aids for the refugee camp, where the corruption is unchecked. the decision making body were more on the backdoor financial gain. I never felt, Nepal government put its genuine effort on solving the problem. It just wanted to linger it as long as possible so that the top-rank officials could milk out their share. Nepal government, however, kept showing interest and thereby providing a false impression that Nepal government is trying to help and solve the Bhutanese refugee problem. This was a fake hope. Had the general refugee mass knew they would never succeed to return back, or they would be living 2 decades in limbo from the beginning, the Bhutanese refugees would have voluntarily surrendured to Bhutanese king.
Nepal government has actually made huge mistake in dealing with Bhutanese refugee problem. The government should not have restricted them in camps. They should be allowed to work / earn and live free life as other Indian immigrants, who claim themselves as Madhesi. If they were given the chance, they would have a different story.
Also, the other thought coulb be: Nepal government probably was afraid of nepalese-origin refugee from other parts like mijoram, asam, or even from darjeeling if they see bhutanese refugee getting accepted in Nepal. Our government is more happy to see people going out rather than people coming back. That is why, we supply manpower to everywhere in the world.
I sent about a dozen staffs to eastern Nepal in 1999. These staffs badly consumed girls from the refugee camp taking advantage of their poverty. Some educated bhutanese wanted to work genuinely, but they had to struggle a lot, hide identity, or beg mercy of some others from the local area. People treated them worse than untouchable. I felt so bad knowing about that. Later in 2006-2007, people were competing to marry girls from the refugee camp as they knew these people are going to get green card / residence permit of developed countries. What a low mentality of the society?
From the beginning, Bhutanese leaders were aware that Nepal is not capable to help them, Nepal won't be lifting up from their problem. But, due to politics, money-play, and high-level diplomacy, they provided sponsored wrong information to the general refugee mass , -- we will solve this problem with the help of Nepalese government, we will solve this problem with international help, we have Nepal in our side etc. -- which might have helped to keep their hopes alive. However, the truth was something else.
Bhutanese establishment clearly wanted to keep them out of country so that others remaining in Bhutan will live in constant fear. India wanted to keep them out of Bhutan to make their hydropower deal on Bhutanese soil and check some terrorist organization close to Bhutanese boundary. We have seen that the Bhutanese refugee leaders were divided. May be, some of them were even secretly working for India and Bhutan. That is why, there was deadly fights outbroak even in their refugee camps.
On the other hand, Nepal government did never have a clear interest or policy on the Bhutanese refugee issue. Sometime it acted to please India, and sometime to avoid international pressure. Probably Nepal government was more on bringing UNHCR and aids for the refugee camp, where the corruption is unchecked. the decision making body were more on the backdoor financial gain. I never felt, Nepal government put its genuine effort on solving the problem. It just wanted to linger it as long as possible so that the top-rank officials could milk out their share. Nepal government, however, kept showing interest and thereby providing a false impression that Nepal government is trying to help and solve the Bhutanese refugee problem. This was a fake hope. Had the general refugee mass knew they would never succeed to return back, or they would be living 2 decades in limbo from the beginning, the Bhutanese refugees would have voluntarily surrendured to Bhutanese king.
Nepal government has actually made huge mistake in dealing with Bhutanese refugee problem. The government should not have restricted them in camps. They should be allowed to work / earn and live free life as other Indian immigrants, who claim themselves as Madhesi. If they were given the chance, they would have a different story.
Also, the other thought coulb be: Nepal government probably was afraid of nepalese-origin refugee from other parts like mijoram, asam, or even from darjeeling if they see bhutanese refugee getting accepted in Nepal. Our government is more happy to see people going out rather than people coming back. That is why, we supply manpower to everywhere in the world.