The Forgotten Exodus
For twenty years, over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees are housed in UNHCR monitored camps in southeastern Nepal. The Lhotshampas, people of Nepali origin, immigrated to Bhutan in the beginning of 19th century. Following tensions with the indigenous Drukpas they fled first to India and were later sheltered in Nepal. The options of repatriation and local integration are closed. Now they are siphoned off to United States, Australia and other European countries for third country resettlement.
