11.06.2007 - Source: ReliefWeb

India has for the first time said the Bhutanese refugees issue is an international problem, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported ("Bhutanese refugees int'l issue: India admits for first time"), Autor: Xinhua News Agency [ID 20916]

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11.12.2005 - Source: ReliefWeb

Indian police stopped hundreds of exiled Nepali Bhutanese from entering India as they tried to return to Bhutan; over 100,000 ethnic Nepali Bhutanese live in camps in eastern Nepal on the border with India after Bhutan's king stripped them of citizenship or forced them to leave because they campaigned for democracy in Himalayan kingdom ("Indian police push back Nepali Bhutanese refugees (Reuters)") [#40467],  [ID 6883]

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16.12.2004 - Source: South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre

Report on the struggle of Bhutanese refugees who try to return to their homecountry ("Bhutan’s Shame: Refugees camped in Nepal must be allowed back home (HRF/110/04)") [#27788],  [ID 6884]

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16.12.2004 - Source: South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre

Report on the struggle of Bhutanese refugees who try to return to their homecountry ("Bhutan’s Shame: Refugees camped in Nepal must be allowed back home (HRF/110/04)") [#27788],  [ID 8178]

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24.05.2004 - Source: US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

Annual report on conditions affecting refugees and asylum seekers in 2003 ("World Refugee Survey 2004") [#22816],  [ID 6885]

"At the end of 2003, some 317,000 refugees were living in India, including some 100,000 Tibetans, an estimated 50,000 refugees from Myanmar, some 15,000Lhotsampa--ethnic Nepalese refugees from Bhutan, and some 11,500 mandate refugees, mostly Afghans (10,300) assisted by UNHCR, and some 400 claims pending before UNHCR. In addition, almost 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees remained in India with some 20,000 living unrecognized by the government outside of camps, some 20,000 registered with the police outside the camps and almost 60,000 government-recognized refugees in camps. Thousands of Nepalese also fled to India during the year, and up to 40,000 Afghans were living in India unassisted by UNHCR. According to the Dalai Lama’s office, some 3,500 Tibetans arrived in India in 2003. The Indian authorities permitted Tibetan refugees to enter, but the government has not granted legal temporary residence to most Tibetans who arrived in recent years.

Although India allows the Bhutanese Lhotsampa, unlike other refugees, to live and work freely in India pursuant to a friendship treaty, it does not confer permanent residence on them. Since most Bhutanese fled to India for the same reasons as those refugees in Nepal, the U.S. Committee for Refugees counts them as refugees."

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