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Another Bhutanese refugee kills himself; ripping people from their culture sometimes is inhumane
Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 19, 2018
This story comes from Vermont.
I haven’t written about Bhutanese refugees in awhile. To date, we moved over 96,000 of the Nepali people (mostly Hindu, some Buddhists) who had been expelled from Bhutan to American towns and cities.
Go here for a post which gives a little of the background about the George W. Bush-era plan to help the UN clean out its camps on the border of Nepal. It was supposed to be a joint effort with many other countries, but of course, we took the vast majority of them.
We said we would take 60,000 beginning in 2007, but as is always the case, we go way beyond what we told the public we would do. ...