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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...