Ethnic Cleansing and Political Repression in Bhutan The Other Side of the Shangri-La an Account of a Prisoner of Conscience by Tek Nath Rizal

E-005. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. SAP-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal. 2004. 119 pgs. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Articles with reference to Nepalese people living mostly in southern Bhutan. In the late 1980s Bhutanese elites regarded a growing ethnic Nepali population as a demographic and cultural threat. The government enacted discriminatory citizenship laws directed against ethnic Nepalis, that stripped about one-sixth of the population of their citizenship and paved the way for their expulsion. After a campaign of harassment that escalated in the early 1990s, Bhutanese security forces began expelling people, first making them sign forms renouncing claims to their homes and homeland. “The army took all the people from their houses, ” a young refugee told me. “As we left Bhutan, we were forced to sign the document. They snapped our photos. The man told me to smile, to show my teeth. He wanted to show that I was leaving my country willingly, happily, that I was not forced to leave. ” EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .