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Raping minors in Bhutan's compassionate Buddhism

23-8014, Netherlands . Compassionate Buddhists, raping the minors in Bhutan has been growing wildly. Rape, which was once one of  the government’s tool to execute  forcible exile in order to reduce population of the Hindu minority citizens has grown up as a serious social problem in the Buddhist communities where addicted rapists continued their recur. Counting only the reported cases, 13 minors are raped in 5 months, 35 minors a year. This means more than 3 minors are raped every month. The actual number of the rape cases against the minors must be quite higher than this because most of the crime is concealed both by the government machinery and the victim themselves. If the rape of the minors is already so rampant, considering unusual and merciless act against the innocent girl child, raping adult girls must be going on wildly in Bhutan for many years. More awesome behind the act of raping minors is the fact that the rapist are mostly the ones closely related to the...

India's hydro-politic against exiled Bhutanese minorities

India’s election outcome and Bhutan’s hydropower potentials has always been making relay race trampling on the track and field of Bhutanese minority Lhotshampas whose population was reduced to half for the benefit of these two nations. Prime ministers: Bhutan and India in New Delhi (BBS foto ) Bhutan’s practice of forcible exile of its minority citizens and India’s horrendous ignore against them withstand the test of time for more than twenty years and now succeeded to wipe them away from their neighbouring state, Nepal once and for ever. Over 130,000 Bhutanese minority Lhotshampas exiled since 1990; 107,800 of those residing since then continuiously in the Bhutanese refugees camps in Nepal, are reduced to only about 30,000 by the time India’s general election was showing truimph of the Bharatiya Janta Party whose topman, Mr. Narendra Modi got sworned on 26 th May 2014 as the 15 th Prime Minister of the world’s largest democratic nation. To congratulate Mr. Modi and q...

American Dream Becomes Nightmare for Bhutanese Refugees

 30 Bhutanese refugees took to suicide in USA since the 3rd country resettlement started in 2008, including 7 within the last  three months alone.  Source :  The Wall Street Journal, 7/1/14 Bhutanese refugees living in the U.S. are finding a mismatch between the dream and the reality. Before Menuka Poudel left the refugee camp in Nepal where she and her family sheltered for almost two decades after being displaced from Bhutan, the 18-year-old spoke to me about her hopes of pursing her college education and living the American dream. Just over a year later, on Nov. 30, 2010, she was found by her mother hanging in an apartment in Phoenix Arizona, where her family had moved a month before. They had hoped to begin a new life under a resettlement program for Bhutanese refugees who had fled cultural and religious persecution. Ms. Poudel, who was still breathing when her mother found her, was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix where she...

May the Dragon king be Lord Krishna Conscious

Wonderful and nice that the King of Bhutan continues to honor the Dasai tika blessings festival of Lhotshampa Hindu Bhutanese.  His Majesty the 5th king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk and the queen honoured the Vijaya Dasami festival in  Thimphu and accepted the tika of Durga maa on the occasion of Dasai 2013. The prime minister and the only Lhotshampa minister Lyonpo DN Dhungel was also present. It was surely a spiritually elevated atmosphere and the exchange of love and respect among the polity an the public.  King during Dasai 2013. Most gratefully appreciated earlier is the permission to establish a Hindu temple in the capital Thimphu. To take care of such a divine work for the country  a religious Hindu community called Druk Hindu Samudaya was earlier founded in accordance with Bhutan's Religious Organisation Act 2007. Bhutan's written constitution deliberately avoided to mention 'Hindu' in it although about one-third of the country's pop...

No coalition in Bhutan's democracy?

‘Election’ is an appetizing word in the lexicon of democracy. The youngest democracy in Bhutan is observing rounds and rounds of election for the second time. How much egalitarian is the system imposed by the 4 th king His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuk is coming into test.   Beginning from the registration of the voters to the formation of the house of parliaments, the democracy in Bhutan follows different levels of control and scrutiny. The National Assembly election, for the second time, commences on 31 May 2013 and the result will be known the next day after submitting it to the king. But this election is only a primary round of the 2 nd phase. The final round, which is called the general election poll day, is scheduled for 13 th July 2013 . As the 1 st phase, the election for the National Council, was held on 23rd April 2013 . In this, one candidate from each of the twenty districts got elected. They were then joined by five more cand...