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Bhutan’s Radicalized Refugees: Part II

Bhutan’s Radicalized Refugees: Part II

Second of a three-part series. Part I can be found here.

Part II: Border Antics

JAIGON, India -- In the Indian town of Jaigon on the border with Bhutan, a day's journey from the refugee camp in Nepal that he now calls home, 47-year-old refugee N.B. Giri waits silently in a small hotel room for his old friend, Gopal. Like Giri, Gopal is an ethnic Nepalese who claims Bhutanese citizenship. But after the expulsions of 1991 that caused Giri to leave, Gopal was one of an estimated 100,000 ethnic Nepalese who remained in Bhutan.

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