India can't assist in resolving Bhutanese refugee problem: Indian envoy
Wednesday, 09 December 2009 16:40
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Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood on Wednesday clarified that the long-standing Bhutanese refugee problem is a bilateral issue between Nepal and India which the two countries should resolve mutually and that India will not intervene in the matter.

Speaking to media-persons after inaugurating a building of a local school in Lakhanpur of Jhapa for which India had extended financial assistance, ambassador Sood said that the Bhutanese refugee problem is very much on the way of being resolved thanks to the third country resettlement option.

He said one-fourth of the total Bhutanese refugee living in seven camps in Jhapa have already been resettled in various countries including America where 25,000 of them have now found home.

The Indian ambassador further said that Indian mediation is not required for repatriation of Bhutanese refugee in their country as it is a bilateral issue to be sorted out between Nepal and Bhutan and that his country won't play any role in it.

He however assured that the refugee problem will sort out itself with time.

Over 1 lakh Nepali speaking ethnic Bhutanese were forcefully evicted from their own country by the Druk regime in Bhutan more than a decade and half ago. nepalnews.com


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john   |70.190.161.xxx |2010-02-17 09:07:14
what a is this??
stupid indians are the root cause of refugee problem. why
should they be bystander when refugees try to return on their own effort. why
are indian so selfish ?????
Kris  - India is the main way....   |203.45.118.xxx |2009-12-20 17:40:39
India is the main way of solving from many things. All the times India
interferes nepal in many way thats the reason being underdeveloped. On one hand
India is showing that they are helping us. while on the other hand they dont
want us to being developed. an eg is of bhutanese refuseee... we can see
clearly..... now whatelse we can say... one thing we can do.. less take..
Swatantar kumar  - Problem is developed by INDIA itself   |220.227.44.xxx |2009-12-18 16:00:34
Expecting from india towards Bhutanese problems is null & void, since the

India has itself thrown this problem over Nepal as in this World Bhutan is a
country which has no freedom to make its foriegn policy & defence structure for
its country's interest. All the
Decesion are made by India. In my personal
opinion, This is a
experiment of India by throwing Nepalese from Bhutanese
Teritory observing what can happen in future if India itself starts throwing out
Nepalese from Indian Teritory ?. Now Nepal has no other option than accepting
these refugeese, india will not ist, as Mr Sood Told but still can help Bhutan
(or advice Bhutan to throw some more Nepalese to Indian border so that Indian
Security forces dump them to Nepal Border.)as Bhutan works as 'DO AS DIRECTED BY
INDIA'.
Anukram  - indian envoy   |82.28.143.xxx |2009-12-10 22:35:10
please check your first line it should be bilateral relationship between nepal
and bhutan not nepal and india..
Dika  - Take WORD FOR WORD now   |115.64.201.xxx |2009-12-10 08:25:23
Take word for word now, NOTE IT DOWN Ma Ku these precious words from your Kidney
Trader dad. And all patriotic people of Nepal and their leaders, please use the
SAME WORDS to stop SOOD daka for intervening in every step of Nepal's
governement decision. IT IS AN INTERNAL MATTER OF NEPAL, and not INDIA's!! Just
give the kidney traders that word back. Understand Ma Ku hari-latthu?
Neon  - Neon   |220.245.2.xxx |2009-12-10 06:02:50
Why the Indian government move the Bhutanese refugees from Bhutanese boarder to
Nepal? Can Mr. Sood clarify this? Nepal has no boarder with Bhutan. When the
refugees were evicted, Bhutanese refugee moved to the India, not in the Nepal.
Why did India helped them move to Nepal? Why India involved India in it. It
would have far more easier and righteous if the India has blocked all the
Bhutanese refugee entering to India, instead what they did is, they just pick
the refugee from Bhutan and dump in Nepali land.

If the India is has no evil
intentions, it would never do such deed but it did. It is clear that India is
one of our greatest threat to the sovereignty of our country.

History shows
that it has always been the India where the eggs for Nepal's misfortune and
destruction has been hatched.
Hira Joshi  - India is part of the problem   |110.34.0.xxx |2009-12-10 03:52:30
India was never a part of any solution for Nepal. One must not forget, Maoist
were sustained by the Indian establishment a few years ago. It is the Indians
who are encroaching Nepal territory. If any political actor gets close to China,
India changes the govt. What can one expect from India & our politicians
appointed by it?
sam  - Dr.   |202.51.81.xxx |2009-12-10 02:03:46
Indians are the ones who fled Bhutanese to Nepal...so what on earth can we
expect from India to help on this matter. If India wanted this could have solved
long long time ago.
Adibasi   |219.76.236.xxx |2009-12-09 22:25:06
Rakesh Sood;
This poor Bhutanese refugees are migrated from India, 99% are
Brahmans, so India must accept this Brahmans coz their ethenic home is India.
Understand???
R.K.Pradhan   |114.114.96.xxx |2009-12-09 22:15:20
Mr journalist are u already blown by the indian culture and their expansionism
that the le itself speak that we are always eager to get India's help. Please
your le makes Nepal look so dependent in India...

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