Bhutanese Refugees
Issue Background Information Bhutanese refugees represent the highest per capita refugee population in the world and yet their story of suffering and of waiting remains largely unheard in the international…
Ethnic cleansing and terrorism
Approximately two-thirds of the government-declared population of 600,000 persons is composed of Buddhists with cultural traditions akin to those of Tibet. The Buddhist majority consists of two principal ethnic and…
Bhutan’s way of Ethnic Cleansing
Geschreven door Nanda Gautam woensdag, 23 juli 2008 01:00 Violation of the rights of one person spilled out to all the minorities Forced out of the Bhutan’s cabinet, exiled, extradited…
Ethnic cleansing in Bhutan.
Bhutan is the only country in the world that has the highest percentage of population living as refugees outside. The absolute monarchy of Bhutan forcibly exiled about 20% of Bhutan’s…
Human Rights Violations in Tibet
CAMP Hale at Colorado in the US is a long way from Tibet. But what joins them together is the training of some 2000 Tibetan warriors who have been taught…
Arrests and Dissidents in Tibet
Children as young as six have been detained in difficult conditions without charges or access to their families and been punished with electric shocks and other tortures. In 1999, a…
Torture and Death in Tibet
There have been reports of monks being tortured by having shock batons stuck down their throats, delivering powerful electric jolts through their entire body. There are also reports of monks…
2010 Human Rights Report: Bhutan
Bhutan is a democratic, constitutional monarchy with a population of approximately 700,000. The king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, is the head of state, and executive power is vested in the…
Buddhists and Human Rights
An analysis of Buddhist affirmations of human rights might begin in India, the birthplace of Buddhism. There in 1956 another Hindu, B. R. Ambedkar, converted to Buddhism and took some…
G.S. Theme: Human Rights & Tibet
CAMP Hale at Colorado in the US is a long way from Tibet. But what joins them together is the training of some 2000 Tibetan warriors who have been taught…