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Nepal: The refugees from Bhutan

Written byNeha Viswanathan
Posted 21 December 2006 2:13 GMT

Democracy For Nepal on the 100,000 refugees from Bhutan. “The same chauvinistic thinking among the Nepali elite that has kept some five million Madhesis deprived of citizenship papers for decades worked among the Bhutani elite to kick these people out of Bhutan”

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