Bhutan's Attempts To Clear Itself Of Nepalese Will Shock You 

Bhutan advertises itself as the most peaceful country. There are many refugees in Nepal who still want to return back to their country. I hope Bhutan sorts out this issue very soon, or the world's going to know about this dark side of Bhutan.

Just because I don’t want to speak the language , wear the dress , follow the religion , follow the fascist rules that is said to be followed doesn’t mean that I should be or deserve to be homeless, nation less , stateless, none has right to judge me fck live and let die .

Is this the nation that measures happiness index. Is this the nation whose got married recently?. Where is the King & Queen.

This is madness why the land of happiness is not filled with the tears of these people what is this cruelty

My love for bhutan converted into hatred

I thought Bhutan was a peaceful Buddhist country, I know this documentary is from 1994, but is this still happening?

my mom and dad told me that they ran away to a camp in nepal when they heard that they would kill them or put them in jail

This is the real face of Bhutan that the world, which seems so eager to praise their GNH system, needs to know about. I feel bad for my fellow ethnic Nepalis in Bhutan. They're bound to lose their culture, their language, their tradition, or even their religion. If this is not ethnic cleansing, I don't know what is.

Now the UN also accept Nepal as its trusted friend, world has seen how bhutan ignored and banned their own citizens and India denied them shelter atlast Bhutanese Nepali took sheltere in Nepal, which the Nepal gov did best of their abilities, they provided shelter and food, and also dont forget Nepal was going through domestic war (moist war) which was the time or crisis in Nepal but also Nepal stood of with them. Nepalese and Neplai government has done much more then their capacity in this regard. Big respect to Nepal and Nepali ... Nepal had done its part as best as it could do.. So i respect Nepal 🇳🇵

Lol I thought bhutan is peaceful country I was wrong

an eye opener for the world on how the bhutaness treat their own citizens

It is all about politics, resource, and nationalism. In other countries it might attract bigger news, but here this racial prosecution seems just a forgotten history, and refugees are still refugees.

Bhutan doesn't want religions other than Buddhism (like Mynamar which what they did to the Rohyngya) How Nationalism can cause Ethnic Cleansing. Which was seen in the Yugoslav wars.

I feel so bad for them. Specially on the last part of this video where they were performing Puja. I am also a hindu, born and raised in Bangladesh. Last year, our Durga ma statues were destroyed by the extremist due to a feud by a muslim extremist who kept Quran intetionally on the feet of lord Hanuman. We forced to cut short our Puja and tearfully bid good bye to our Durga ma in silent. My brother got injured badly just to protect the temple and lots of people lost their lives just to protect their home and ashram. I can't imagine how much pain they had been feeling right now. I used to look up at Bhutan as a peaceful country where people live in harmony. But this is so horrendous! Maximum Bengali hindus forced to be refugee in India during 71' liberation war but few chose to stay in their homeland. Because homeland is where our soul reside. I wish I could hug that old lady and wipe her tears. I pray to Lord her dreams of going back to her homeland become true.

80,000 Lhotsampas(nepali origin bhutanse) are still living in bhutan without citizenship card because their grandparents participated in democrasy movement of 90's, their coming generation citizenship is being stripped, bhutan is just like north Korea, punishing generations just for grandfather protest, their life is hell without a good education and good job, Most of the jobs or scholarship requires citizenship card and NOC(no objection certificate). but they can't raise their voice, because they fear getting expelled, since they don't even have citizenship with them right now, bhutan will easily get away from it, so they fear and never raise their voice, but they are unhappy inside. Their lives are being ruined.

Nepalis people are innocent, friendly natured but in Bhutan what were so happened is inhumane.If the global Nepali be communalised then the scenerio be adverse.But don't be afraid our mentally are not mean as the Bhutanese.

Just another reminder that as nice as an idea it may be and aspire towards, utopias don’t exist. Every nation has some blood on it’s hands for whatever reason.

Buddhist Bhutan is no different than Taliban

I m in Bhutan. Because of one two people mistakes I m not able to see my grand father and grand mother. Now we are living and struggling to buy our own lands.

I am from Bhutan and we have lot of Nepali ethics friends here they live like any other citizen of Bhutan and we call them Lhotsompa( Southern Bhutanese) not Nepali. We respect each other culture and our coexistence and they even occupies 30-40% of Government cabinate seat. So they are enjoying like any other Drukpa(Bhutanese). And its so disheartening see people in video suffering in refugee camp but those people are the one who revealed and demanded a state within small country which was ruled and protected by Drukpas more then 500 years ago.And journalist on this video didn't showed Bhutanese Government reply which will make them more forgotten by world.

Well reading all the comments I realised how fucked up are we, shame on us as a human being, I felt even animals and insects are more social and civilized than us. However, as a proud nepali citizen I do condemned the act of bhutanese government as they didnot act on behalf of being human but ravaged them just because of their race and religion. They could have solved this issue in much more smarter way, they didnt have to be evicted, murdered or raped as claimed by plaintiffs. Racial, ethenic security or national issues could have been addressed witbout so much chaos n distress. Well, since the past is passed all we can do is educate each other and behave like real human respecting each other, hate is easy to spread love, trust and respect takes time to earn. Peace!!!

End of Bhutan started with this. History will not be kind to Bhutan.

Shame on Bhutanese govt. I literally have friends that I grew up with who were refugees. Their childhood pictures are all in Bhutanese dress. Never understood why they had come to Nepal and after 20 years I am watching this clip, makes me sad to my stomach that they were brutally forced out. Let the people be what they wanna be and live in their dam*n place. Just because u r govt, doesn't make u superior, you kings are bleed just like these innocent refugees too. Instead of being pround of having multiculture, you're sbout one nation one people, that sucks, when people can't decide what they wanna have for dinner in a day as each person has different taste, its wrong to expect everyone to follow same custome, culture and language. Man... forced happiness ain't no happiness, cant believe such place exist in south asia still.

No less then North koria ISOLATED

The actual land of hapinnes is Nepal. Bhutan cannot neglect its own people and detain them to the neighbouring country. There could have been a logical solution than to just make them homeless.

Buddhism has a very carefully managed image.

didn't know that was timai camp. It looks so beautiful

As a Nepalese I never thought Bhutan was this rude. In Nepal everyone has a good image about Bhutan and I also heard that king of Bhutan was also born in Nepal. So what is this drama about?

Shame on Bhutan

Poor people I wonder why This country chased them away... it’s unfair,,, UN and the international court should help them.. coz we are All equal

It's been almost 4 years since the video was posted but I knew about the bhutanese nepali or lhotsam refugees only recently. I am from the west of Bhutan and my ethnic is ngalop, I must agree that we have never learned about this in school and I have been researching about this issue a lot. I hate to admit that ethnic cleansing was a part of Bhutan but people should also not forget that 1/5 of lhotsams were still there in the country. I guess the king just saw lhotsams as a bigger threat to taking power from the ngalops as the population was increasing, I also learned that at that time Bhutan was planning to join the UN nation or so (correct me if I am wrong) , inorder to join the organization Bhutan needed to have a certain amount of population so may be that's how Lhotsams were driven out of the country. What the king and the government did was wrong and I am sure there were better ways to deal the problem but the country was so underdeveloped that they needed help. Not everyone in Bhutan are racists, the situation are much more better than how it was after the fifth king was crowned also he did take back some of the bhutanese nepali refugees back to the country after he saw the situations. Edit: I don't mean to seek sympathy for the actions Bhutan has done because the wound may never heal and I am sure no matter how many apologies we make can never be enough to put an end to the sufferings people faced. But I hope there could be better ways to grow together without hatred and where this topic could be educated without any tamper to the real history of ethnic cleansing in Bhutan.

Have some shame BHUTAN 👎️

As a hindu from India Lord Buddha was born in Nepal hindu family and learn in budh gaya India . Bhutan don't forget if we hindu indian and Nepal are protecting you otherwise you situation will be like Tibetan 😡😡

Here after the Nepali comment’s video!!

I do not think some of the people commenting realise that this is a 1994 documentary. It isnt the exact same situation anymore, but most of the 100,000 that left are now living in other countries and mostly in the USA.

im from india and i speak nepali! my nationality is indian and doesnt mean dat india will kick us out of country just because we speak nepali! we believe unity in diversity! bhutan shame on ur mentality

Our Nepali had suffered during those days

Problem is not Bhutan the problem is India .. which is not vocal about the issues of Hindus .. Hindus persecuted in Kashmir , in Punjab , Mizoram , in Bhutan , mayanmar , pakistan Afghanistan , Bangladesh .. even in sril Lanka but our government is sleeping ....

i dont understand idea of illigal migration here, they have been there as old as their kings dynasty.

I never thought that bhutan had this dark side😢. I used to love bhutan because I used to feel bhutan as my hometown nepal but after knowing this dark side. I don't feel as I ised to before

To be honest being as a Bhutanese I don't think our government should not acted like this I am never expected those videos were made me shocked

See how Nepalese are even though facing such extreme racism they did not boomed bhutani ppls unlike muslim in india....🙏🙏🙏 Respect

Lots of groups of Sino Tibetian descent in North East . The austronesian paleo Dai ( Mong Mou and Shan hills ) , Indo-Chinese descent - Sino Tibetian Chutian and the erstwhile Tibeto Burman Bodos ( Mech ) of Assam , Darjeeling formed and powerful kingdom . I think there were some migrants unknown to the Bhutia ( Bhu Tia ) which were not the ethnic inhabitants of the land were targeted like the refugee in Myanmar .

That is why you must be skeptical those who virtue signal Bhutan being the epitome of it...remind you us Nepalese still havent forgotten the atrocities....

Wouldn't "most intense campaigns of persecution in the world" usually mean they've all been tortured, imprisoned, or killed? Maybe Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the Kims, etc., don't stand out to the writers and producers here for their examples of "intense" and "persecution," but I'm fairly sure this doesn't rise to that level, difficult and sad as some of the behaviors and the loss of citizenship and residency have been. Bhutan does not make it easy for those of other religious and ethnic persuasions to live there, but why is this expected? They have been transitioning to democracy and I don't recall that there is any requirement, political, moral, or otherwise, that a country's king or its people have to choose to be a multicultural melting pot. Bhutan should have to accept Maoism? Hinduism? The Nepalese language? The fate of Sikkim? The failure to grasp that in the interviews is shocking as well.

another north korea with India backing .

Sabhai nepal bolna haru maro daju bhai ho

Some time I also hate Their King and primeminister When I see their refugee in Nepal . Personally I have good relationship with bhutan . I have lots of bhutanese friends they are soo good kind and helpful .. God bless them refugee

bhutan you will pay for this its gonna be a war

This documentary made me very emotional 😩😭.

I am from India, I never knew such thing ever happened to our fellow hindus. We hindus have suffered the most in the world sadly. Bhutan we assumed you are a peacefull country don't do such thing

Bhutan will pay for this in the future.

this clip is from years ago but was uploaded recently...actually now Bhutan has t.v,phones,etc...and there are still many Nepalese-Bhutanese in Bhutan...but these refugees were kicked out because they threatened the king,burning the county's flag,etc...because they were not ready to abide by the rules of the country and now there are ministers that are Nepalese-bhutanese(Lotshampa). p.s...its not compulsory to wear gho&kira(national dress)except when going to schools and offices.

i felt pity for nepalese people. where ever they are they are insulted and hated by other, in most of the metro cities in india nepalese are look down and people make fun of them. but nepalese are hard working, tollerent, peace loving prople, in the mean time they are brave soldiers.the king of scotland and england employ gurkha army as their guards. nepalese society is a very diverse society.but they are bind together by one thing that is the Nepali language. they have distinct culture unique identities.

Bhutanese government is a criminal & terrorist but one day they will get karma by god! God bless our Nepali brother & sister!

Bhutan never chased or forced them out .They were completely against the visionary idea of one nation and one people whereby they demanded a separate state ,culture and many other irrelevant demands.They had the fortune and privilege even as an immigrants like all other Bhutanese but they turned up to be the ones who shitted in their own plates and chased themselves.No one to blame but themselves .Truth is bitter but fact remains fact .

Information on background is false... Drukpa is 20%..wat a joke..... chek ur source...

The system is to blame... And it's not just Bhutan's problem. Fight between perception of power one's always have led to innocent sufferings....

Is there internet in Bhutan?

Rip bhutan bureaucracy

After Jews, Hindu is the most persecuted community in the world. They were massacred during the Mughal, Turk and Afghan rule in India. Christian missionaries under the support of French, British and Portugese colonial powers killed Hindus in Goa and Southern India. They've entirely wiped out of Afghanistan, almost wiped out of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Exodus of Hindus was carried out in Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar and Kashmir.

everyone has right to say something or write something but those who are reading comment or watching this video make sure that whether it's truth or fake

A kingdom so desperate and fearful of losing its power that it kicks out its citizen just because they speak different language. India has many languages. Many Bengali speakers, Nepali speakers, does this mean India should kick its own citizens out?? Such a shame Bhutan

Television and Internet came to Bhutan in 1998

The statement made by refugee Nepalese is totally false. Being in the land of Bhutan, one should follow the rules and regulation of that country. That time in 1994, the southern Citizens of Bhutan, so called Nepalese made social movement going against the rules of the government, trying to separate Bhutanese citizens into two groups (Bhutanese and Nepalese) with different religion and culture, which is totally not acceptable. A country can have a rule that must be followed by all citizens not selectively. Hence, two bring law and order, the country adopted to fix those going against country, that time Nepalese who attempted to fight against government fled. This is the reason why they left Bhutan and became refugee of Bhutan.

The game of divide and rule

This is nobody's fault but a low immigration knowledge that happened.. everyone thought they were Bhutanese untill the immigrants demanded for saprerate administration in a small country... ask ur parents what did they do for the country??? Please...

Thus i am tempted to visit Bhutan, Nepali, and then Tibet. At the least i want to figure out what's going on in person.

So the conclusion is if u don't wear cloths resembling the place where you belongs to or don't speak your national language or a . Then you have to leave that place . When why not all those Tibetan decended leave Bhutan and go Tibet??? ????

Happiness index by what???? Shameless act by Bhutanese..

What’s the name of the chant at the end

Is Bhutan like this today? Do they still charge $300 per day to visitors?

Guys, this video was filmed in 1994! People are commenting as if this is happening right now.

gross happiness index.....it is a joke....

I love both Nepalese and Bhutanese, but not the communal politicians.

So if there were genocide then why is that 40% of Bhutan's current population is nepalese/lhotsham?

Bhutan has to display it's power in a restless region. Other countries in the region have cleansed ethnicities before or doing it right now. All the countries in South Asia are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar (which is more south-east but we'll allow it), Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Now, looking through the history of these countries, almost all of them have done ethnic cleansing or are suppressing a minority. India have done it to separatists in the East of its country and the Sikh genocide in 1984. Pakistan have been suppressing the Baluchis, a group who occupy the state of Baluchistan, and claim they were illegally annexed in 1947. Afghanistan hasn't, mostly due to the turmoil and civil war on it's land, but with several small societies living in Afghanistan, it is likely. Nepal is a mostly peaceful country so hasn't really done any of this. Bhutan has been killing 100,000 Nepalese refugees who used to live in southern Bhutan. Their void was filled by Indian separatists, leading to Operation All Clear in 2004. Bangladesh hasn't been doing ethnic cleansing, but for years Hindus and Muslims have been clashing in Bangladesh. During Bangladesh's independence war, approximately 3 million people died. Atrocities everywhere in the streets of Dhaka. So while we can be sure there is some high ethnic tension and discrimination there, cleansing is acted upon immediately by the UN. Myanmar's civil war started because of cleansing in the Rohingya district of the population, so you can't really the rebels for starting a war. Sri Lanka suppressed it's ethnic Tamil minority, which in turn led to a 60 year war with the Tamil Tigers, a group regarded by the US as a terrorist group. The Maldives hasn't been doing any of this as far as I know because of the amount of land they don't have, there isn't anything to lose blood over. The Bhutanese government were probably frightened by the amount of people in the south and thought they could start a revolution. After all, Bhutan is one of the last remaining monarchies. That's why they keep the communist party under control and ban them from Bhutanese politics. Bhutan is slowly evolving from a monarchy to an authoritarian state, and it needs to display it's power and dominance, to show it is not a weak country. This stuff is wrong, but the reason is fear, power and control. Bhutan knew it would be backed by India, so never worried about invasion. Bhutan is not a North Korea, but more of a Britain in Ireland.

My dad once told me that he had to run away from Bhutan.[Yuhh he was born there so was his dad but both of them we're Nepali] I remember him saying that they weren't accepted there. And that he was threatened to leave Bhutan. So he traveled to India because he didn't want to be killed. But after awhile, he went back to Nepal with some people. [he didn't tell me what happened after] But we're in united states now!

this clips shows only people driven out of bhutan but does not show why they were kicked out only half truth has been told.

I didn't hope bhutan's king was a statue

We also have Buddhists-Tamangs, Shakyas. These people don't mix well with the native Hindu population.

please sort this mess out, whoever is concerned or related . Nepalese officials must act to this mayhem as they are clearly Nepalese speaking community. This becomes our responsibility to do utmost recovery to our ethnicity. hail Nepal, all hail Nepalese roots.Jai nepal.

is this camp in Nepal or in Bhutan,,,i tried to find the answer in comments but i found onl;y insults

I hope I live to see the day when the Bhutanese government makes an official apology statement for the atrocities committed against the bhutanese lotshampas who were murdered, raped, tortured and driven out without any reasonable explanation but for the fact that they were simply people with different ethnicity, culture and religion. I get that bhutan wanted to implement the idea of one nation and one people but what is humanity without diversity. In this case, the idea of unity becomes a toxicity. And I know there might have been casualties on both sides but in this case the one who is clearly more disadvantaged and on the less powerful scale is evidently the bhutanese lotshampas.

I am nepalese but what i think is bhutan is also right in its place...for humanity it is not good but for country’s interest it is...nepalese people and government should focus on their own country...

Originally from Nepal, they were given lands and granted full citizenship by our generous and kind hearted king as a gesture of friendship towards Nepal, but the Nepali/bhutanese started going against the government and the king who was so kind to them, killings and violence started, they wanted to live under their own rules, lived under no rules, had no consideration or respect for the overall bhutanese people, they wanted their own small government and did not want to follow national rules, in my opinion that is like biting the hand that feeds you, this is the primary reason why they had to be expelled from the country, the riots and public defamation against the country and the king could not be controlled peacefully. You cant find the truth on the news and videos like this give you a one sided story. Even today, fake articles are being written by nepalese about what happened back then. Research pls...

Respect for bhutan📈

inhumane .. :( they could have accepted them .. jst shameful; but Nepal is more than happy to accept u :) :)

This is the true of Bhutan and buddhist people

I was a lot more curious what happend at that time as a nepalese too but what happened to these people were cruel,their home for generarions were destroyed and were forced for migration just beacuse they followed diff culture and what about the culture of humanity? What happened was not acceptable, but it was all in past and I do not think i should have any hatred toward the present Bhutan.Bhutan is one of the places i would like vist in future.

Chinese have rutted maoisam every where is the issue to cover up Tebet take over, so no one afraid but we have to understand that if there will be war Chinese economy will also suffer from that

If there is no light rays from sun, moon couldn't have existed. If there is no dark face from people, country wouldn't have dark side. All we know is others fault, but not our ownself. there is no way to blame solely on bhutanese government, those who blame bhutanese government, first blame urself n then u may blame bhutan. Remember that we have three sets of group; sharchob (easterner), ngalop (westerner) and lhotshampa aslo known nepalis (southerner), and we all have been living harmonously n peacefully cos of all of our unity and commitment to the root of no recism. From these three groups, those who rebels the country n step outside always try to blame bhutan n its government by implying all faults to the country and always make urself righteous n beg consolidation from UN and the foreigners. Remember of few things those refugee outside and other educated foreginers who is reading this message: we lhotshampas, we sharshops and we ngalops have been eating from same plate, drinking from same cup of same flowing river, enjoying the peace and harmony that always have been shining over our tiny kingdom, enjoying the free man righteousness of food, marriage, language(king use to give speech to nepalis in nepal laguage for their further understanding), enjoing free trade in community without any discrimination and more of things unkown to you, we are experiencing happiness in the namely she has been named as GNH country. Thank u.

we are human....thats all that matter. im sad to see such treatment being done.

They should respect all Nepalese people...

Nice

So tell me Nepal refuses to take their own people back ? And these people were illegally staying in Bhutan and protesting against the monarch. Funny these so called humanitarian help don't exactly investigate the cases and just easily believe what's infront of them.

Some ppl might think this is untrue, but this true event that took place, while in my father and grandfather period. I was also told the same story this ppl are telling in this video.

घरी घरी सोच्ने गर्छु त्यो पल कस्तो थीयो होला अनी यिनीहरु अहीले कत्रा अनी कस्तो भए होला ...... 😃 परीस्थीती जे जस्तो भए नि अहीले अवस्था राम्रो भएको छ सबैलाई नया अनी सफल जिवनको शुभकामना............ ♥

Why are the translations not very accurate?

Eventually ever county in the world will follow in Bhutan footsteps to save their native ,s culture an history