“We Don’t Want to Be Refugees Again”

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May 3, 2003 10:11AM EDT | Background Briefing

“We Don’t Want to Be Refugees Again”

A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper for the Fourteenth Ministerial Joint Committee of Bhutan and Nepal

Human Rights Watch urged Bhutan and Nepal to implement a screening and repatriation process that protects the human rights of more than one hundred thousand refugees of Nepalese ethnicity who were arbitrarily stripped of their citizenship and forced to flee Bhutan in the early 1990s.

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