Delay of justifiable solution to Bhutanese refugees will have devastating result, warn leaders

Indian, Nepalese and Bhutanese leaders have warned the concerned governments that delay in finding justifiable solution of the crisis created after the Bhutanese regime evicted its citizens in 1990 will have devastating results, reported online edition of refugee-run news agency Bhutan News service.

A meeting organized recently by Bhutan Solidarity in Indian capital New Delhi took this decision. Senior journalist of India Ananda Swaroop Verma said the issues could turn into violent struggle and will have the larger security ramification to Indian north east region.

He further said India , Bhutan and international community are keenly awaiting exiled Bhutanese to resort into violence so that they could be ruthlessly suppressed under the 'terrorist' tag.

Pramod Kafly of the Group for International Solidarity (GRINSO) said that it is astonishing to see the passionate and determined hope on the faces of exiled Bhutanese to return their homeland, in spite of tempting offer and destitute camps life. He urged Indians friends to pressurize their government on accountability of Indian Tax payer's money being offered to Bhutanese despotic monarch.

Vice president of the Bhutan National Democratic Party (BNDP) Dr. D. N. S Dhakal said he was surprised to see the US initiative in Indian backyard adding the offer must have come after exhausting every possibility by Nepal government.

Dividing the Bhutanese community in exile into three categories – opting US offer, believing in national reconciliation and repatriation and resorting to violent means to seek their justice – Dr Dhakal said the believers of violent means are in minority at this time but warned that continuation of status quo would eventually make the present minority group into majority force.

He informed that the democratic process underway in Bhutan could be Indian government's pressure on Bhutan King for changes. Yet he expressed hope that Indian people and Indian government would support the Bhutanese people's democratic aspirations and opportune time is only the question.

Socialist leader Surendra Mohan warned the fellow Bhutanese democrats to understand the 'Indian agenda' and 'Greater Nepal' issues while stepping-up the movement in Bhutan. He cited his meeting with Kazi Lhendup Dorji, then president Sikkim National Congress in 1963 to caution Bhutanese democrats.  However, he urged the Bhutanese democrats to take peaceful means to achieve their just ends and his solidarity is always with Bhutanese leaders, the report quoted Surendra Mohan as saying.