* Bhutanese Refugees – A story of a forgotten people

* UNHCR briefing – Bhutanese Refugees:

As the Bhutanese government was unwilling to take them into their country many developed nations offered the Refugees to allow them to settle in their own countries which include USA and Australia.

* 1984 – Kunzang Choden, Bhutanese target shooter

* 1983 – Sherab Zam, Bhutanese archer

Under the Cooch Behari agreement with the British, a British expeditionary force drove the Bhutanese garrison out of Cooch Behar and invaded Bhutan in 1772 – 73.

Boundary disputes plagued Bhutanese – British relations.

The Duar War ( 1864 – 65 ) lasted only five months and, despite some battlefield victories by Bhutanese forces, resulted in Bhutan's defeat, loss of part of its sovereign territory, and forced cession of formerly occupied territories.

Painting is the main theme of the institute, which provides 4 – 6 years of training in Bhutanese traditional art forms.

Thinley blamed the global economic crisis of 2008 – 2009 on " insatiable human greed " and stressed the need to instead focus on the Bhutanese notion of gross national happiness.

Considering this an auspicious sign, he entered the valley to choose a site for the construction of a monastery, whereupon he heard three peals of thunder – a sound produced by the druk ( dragon ) according to popular Bhutanese belief.

Regarding the origin of the term ' Lepcha ' writes Sailen Debnath " The word ' Lepcha ', most probably a geo-racial term, is phonetically an elongated and much evolved form of the Bhutanese Dzongkha word ( even might be of Chhokey origin ) “ La – chhu ” which the Drukpa Bhutanese might have used to geographically identify the early people of Sikkim and Kalimpong in the bygone ages of their long connection with Tibet via the Chumbey Valley since the time of Sabdrung Nagawang Namgyal, the founding father of Drug-Yul.

The Namgyal had three wives – a Tibetan, a Bhutanese and a Limbu girl.

In Bhutan the title almost always refers to Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal ( 1594 – 1651 ), the founder of the Bhutanese state, or one of his successive reincarnations.

The Duar War ( 1864 – 1865 ) lasted only five months and, despite some battlefield victories by Bhutanese forces, resulted in Bhutan's defeat, loss of part of its sovereign territory, and forced cession of formerly occupied territories.

When deciding whether to prosecute cases under Bhutanese law, the Prosecution and Litigation Division of the Office of the Attorney General first evaluates whether there exists a prima facie case – whether the elements of the offense are met.

Bhutanese painted thangka of Tertön Padmasambhava, late 19th century, Do Khachu Gonpa, Mebisa, Bhutan According to generally accepted history, the rediscovering of terma began with the first tertön, Sangye Lama ( 1000 – 1080 ).

Seeing the demographic writing on the wall after a population census in 1988, Bhutan expelled some 100, 000 ethnic Nepalese who became Bhutanese refugees in camps in southeastern Nepal.

* Bhutanese refugees

* The Bhutanese refugees

( Encyclopaedia of Saarc Nations, Syed ) Under pressure from China, the Bhutanese government demanded that the four thousand Tibetan refugees living in Bhutan either become Bhutanese citizens or go into exile.

As many as 20, 000 Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in these countries.

With less than 700, 000 people living in Bhutan, if all the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal would return it would severely disturb the country's demography.

In Bhutan those who speak Nepali ( known as Lhotshampa ) are estimated at about 35 percent of the population if all displaced Bhutanese refugees are counted ( unofficial estimates of the ethnic Nepalese population ran as high as 30 to 40 percent, constituting a majority in the south ), or about 242, 000 people.

The U. S. has offered to resettle 60, 000 of the 107, 000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese origin now living in seven U. N. refugee camps in southeastern Nepal.

Norway has already settled 200 Bhutanese refugees, and Canada has agreed to accept up to 5, 000 through to 2012.

* Killing Time ( 2007 film ), a documentary by Annika Gustafson about the Bhutanese refugees

About 15 % of the budget will be allocated to forgotten crisis, such as the Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and the victims of armed conflict in Central Africa.

* Bhutanese refugees

In 1988, Bhutan was reported to have evicted some number of Nepali-speaking residents ( Bhutanese reports say about 5, 000 and Refugee reports says over 100, 000 ) from districts in southern Bhutan, creating a large refugee community that is now being detained in seven temporary United Nations refugee camps in Nepal and Sikkim.

The Indian rupee is also legal tender in Nepal and Bhutan, but the Nepalese rupee and Bhutanese ngultrum are not legal tender in India.

*-( l ) ese ( Aragon → Aragonese, Assam → Assamese, Benin → Beninese, Bhutan → Bhutanese, Burma → Burmese ( though see below ; Irregular forms ), Calabria → Calabrese, China → Chinese, Congo → Congolese, Da Lat ( Vietnam ) → Dalatese, East Timor → East Timorese, The Faroe Islands → Faroese, Gabon → Gabonese, Genoa → Genovese, Guangdong → Cantonese, Guyana → Guyanese, Hong Kong → HongKongnese / Chinese, Japan → Japanese, Lebanon → Lebanese, Macao → Macanese / Chinese, Malta → Maltese, Marshall Islands → Marshallese, Milan → Milanese, Nepal → Nepalese, Piedmont → Piedmontese, Portugal → Portuguese, San Marino → Sammarinese, Sark → Sarkese, Senegal → Senegalese, Shanghai → Shanghainese, Sikkim → Sikkimese, ( South ) Sudan → ( South ) Sudanese, Suriname → Surinamese, Republic of China → Taiwanese, Togo → Togolese, Turin → Torinese, the Tyrol → Tyrolese, Vienna → Viennese, Vietnam → Vietnamese )

Consequent to the repeated attacks by the Bhutanese and Nepalese over the many invasions, the capital city was reduced to ruins by the invading army of Nepal.

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, around 125, 000 ethnic Serbs who fled the 1991 – 1995 conflict are registered as having returned to Croatia, of whom around 55, 000 remain permanently.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

* 1933 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat ( UN High Commissioner for Refugees ) ( d. 2003 )

* Hans Lukaschek ( CDU ) – Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims

* Theodor Oberländer ( GB / BHE ) – Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims

* Theodor Oberländer ( CDU ) – Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims

* 5 April 1960 – Oberländer resigns as Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims.

* 27 October 1960 – Hans-Joachim von Merkatz ( CDU ) becomes Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims.

* Wolfgang Mischnick ( FDP ) – Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims

* 2003 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( b. 1933 )

* Sudan – Refugees in their own country: The Forced Relocation of Squatters and Displaced People from Khartoum, in Volume 4, Issue 10, of News from Africa Watch, 10 July 1992.

* 12-Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan, 70, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1965 – 1977.

Most Palestinian refugees – those in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan – do not come within the responsibility of the UNHCR, but instead come under an older body, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ).

* December 8 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) established as a UN agency.

* Peace – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

* Ernst Lemmer ( CDU ) – Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims

* Johann Baptist Gradl ( CDU ) – Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims

The creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

* Chuck Palahniuk – Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon

The falls are notable because of an event on 28 – 29 April 1994, when 250, 000 Rwandans crossed the bridge at Rusumo Falls into Ngara, Tanzania, in 24 hours in what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called " the largest and fastest refugee exodus in modern times.

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan KCSS (,, 1933 – 2003 ) served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978, during which he reoriented the agency's focus beyond Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues.