“I have chosen to be here, longing for repatriation to Bhutan, my own country,” Gurung says. Principal Purna Gurung, left, and one of his teachers at Tri Ratna Secondary School at the Beldangi refugee ...

where the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) established seven temporary camps. Seventy-year-old Muktangtamang recalls fleeing southern Bhutan's Sarpang district with a "thuncha" basket of clothes and ...

They get bad company, and they drink a lot. They get violent. 24 — A 43-year-old refugee at the Beldangi II camp The Bhutanese refugees in Nepal are restricted to living in camps and prohibited ...

Jai Subedi still doesn't know why Mitra Mishra killed himself. Subedi, a case manager for Bhutanese refugees at Interfaith Works Center for New Americans in Syracuse, NY, was with the 20-year-old ...

In 2008, the U.S. agreed to absorb 60,000 refugees from the tent camps, leading to an influx of Southern Bhutanese immigrants in Portland and other cities. According to Immigrant and Refugee ...

Lumjel is one of the thousands of Bhutanese Nepali refugees who found faith in Christ while living in refugee camps in Nepal. The conversions of the Lhotshampa, most of whom were Hindu ...

Pyakurel and other members of the ethnic Nepali Hindu community in Bhutan, known as Lhotshampa, were forced to enter refugee camps in nearby Nepal after refusing to assimilate to the Buddhist King ...

The refugees languished in camps in Nepal for decades as talks between the Bhutanese and Nepali governments continually stalled. Eventually, most were resettled in the U.S. and several other ...

His grandfather, who is in his 90s, lives almost 8,000 miles away in Bhutan, the country Dhakal's father fled 30 years ago, fearing arrest for his political beliefs. Born in a refugee camp in ...

Refugees from the Himalayan nation of Bhutan have endured decades of exile in camps, resettlement and the mental exhaustion that comes with that road. For some adults, the journey ends in self ...

So we had two months to leave Bhutan or we would be put into jail,” Pyakurel said. He and his family would spend more than a decade in a refugee camp in Nepal. “Seventeen years in Nepal in a ...