Mr. Bill Frelick has done a wonderful job of bringing out a portion of truth.
It is true that some of the political gangsters have to hold certain level of responsibility in creating refugees. Non-the less the government of Bhutan with the help of military chased a large number of people from Bhutan.
To give you some account if a person is forcibly made to leave Bhutan by the Political Party (BPP. The hooligans believed that they were political party and started raising questions against the government of Bhutan without educating the public…They themselves did not know what their demand was but were involved in all sorts of criminal activities….. Forcibly raised a huge sum of money and used it in the way they liked... who could question them about who is accountable … the ones who did not want to pay were branded spy and were taken to Garganda… a place in India and were murdered brutally) then the other relatives of the person were denied to stay in Bhutan by the government. A lot of force was used by the army to evict the southern Bhutanese. Meetings were held at midnight and people were forced to agree that they would sign voluntary form and leave the country. I could even witness and read the face of people during the time of signing voluntary forms. The forms were voluntary but the people's will was controlled and imposed. Now the relatives of the very person were warned by the government of Bhutan to leave immediately. Does this justify??? In 1990 I was a small boy studying in Paro High School, my parents are illiterate, my father had a large number of cattle and he used to live in the jungle with the cattle, my mother also illiterate used to be too busy looking after household chores and cultivate the land (10 acres of paddy field and 5 acres of dry land). My elder brother was a plumber working at Thimphu. None of us knew what politics was and never cared who wanted what.
Finally, when my brother had come home to see the family, he was called for a midnight meeting called by the then Dzongdag (Chief of District) and the battalion of army stationed at the local primary school where he was forced at gun point to sign the form. We were given an ultimatum of 3 days to leave the country.
What was our mistake????????????????
We did not join the procession called by the notoriously defamed BPP
None of us or our relative had joined the party.
Our census was in form 1 (one)
I was slapped by the army leader Mr. Lepcha (That rotten rascal) He is a real terrorist more than that of BPP.
I had good friendship with the Northerners and Easterners. We never had any sort of animosity.
I and my family did not go against the rules of the country.
I am not a beggar and did not come to Nepal for a plate of rice….. Never… my family had enough of what we wanted because my father, grandfather... Great grandfather had toiled enough for our good future.

I WANT JUSTICE…………….. DID YOU LISTEN????????
I want to return to Bhutan and I want all what I had before.
You cannot say that the camp is infiltrated by impoverished people and not Bhutanese. I know the whole people of my village and my sub division. They are all bona-fide Bhutanese. The government of Bhutan, government of Nepal and the international organizations can form a team, verify the people and give justice to the victims by taking them back to their home instead of just babbling about whether they are Bhutanese or not. We do not want to fill up the country with Non-Bhutanese……

maelstorm, for your kind information UNHCR was not formed for Bhutanese refugees, they do have established procedure in place. Just by saying that they don't you are making a fool of yourself.

And regarding the recent bomd explosion, it is easy to blame the refugees if anything goes wrong in Bhutan. Didn't the bombs in Samtse and Thimphu explode next to Peoples' Democratic Party offices. What message do you get from that.

I pity for refugees.
Wel, u know every country has a rule,sometime new rules r created for good of a country.At first new rules ll b awesome if we're not familiar.But with time it'll get used to it.

It so happened in Bhutan in early 90's where our govt made rules where every citizen must wear 'gho & kira' at office,school,market & functions. Before introduction of this rule, ppl used to wear paint & shirt in the school & office. Because of this govt ve enacted this rule to preserve our culture.
So citizen must follow the rules of a country. 'Bhutan is a monarchy country'. But southern ppl acted like democracy, dint follow rule of a country instead revolted. If a citizen goes against a govt he/she should b punished. If these ppl ve abide by rule there wont b a problem called 'refugee'. I'd say these ppl ve created their own destiny by going against a country law.

Again think 'why these ppl ve selected nepal as their refugee place?' There must b strong reasons,i think everybody knows it. Keep guessing if u dont...

mr refugee,
the question is not whether the people in the camps are refugees or not or whether they are suffering or not. the question is whether they are bhutanese.

so long as you guys skip over this question, we will never be on the same page.

wangdipema is real ngolop still in bhutan one leg out and one leg in. wangdipema does not mean he is drukpa. he used to be no. one protester against the king, govt and the country in bhutandaily.com forum. not only in japa there are noglops still in bhutan. only those people's helping hands are responsible of recent boom blast. their attitude is not at all upright. if govt catch them and deal them according to law , then it is said discrimination. if govt is protecting its own unique tradition and culture, it is said ethnic cleansing. horn bill's researched solution will further shake the land of thunder dragon. its not so enchanting. those who give supportive comment for mr. bill, does not talk about cause and effect. they try to talk only their positive things and others negetive things. please try to measure both sides negetive and positive. so there lies the truth.