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INVESTIGATING BHUTAN'S NEW INSURGENCY
Almost twenty years after over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese residents of Bhutan were expelled, the refugee camps they still inhabit, scattered across nearby eastern Nepal, have become crucibles for an insurgency that is now poised to threaten Bhutan as it settles into newly-established democracy.
As the political wheels turned full speed in Bhutan, with the dramatic abdication of its fourth king in a bid to usher in democracy, the refugees in Nepal faced almost complete political inaction regarding their fates.
In a reporting project funded by The Nation Institute, I traveled to the camps to understand the roots of the insurgency, the momentum it is gathering and the threat it poses to Bhutan.
Below is the work produced from this trip.
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The Bhutan Insurgencies
A building insurgency threatens the world's youngest democracy
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The Bhutan Insurgencies
Don Duncan travels to Bhutan, the
world’s newest democracy, to meet the
political leaders and militants shaping
the country
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Nepalese minority poses a problem for Bhutan
The impressive necklace of cliff-perched fortresses that dot this Himalayan nation's mountainous perimeter are a testimony to Bhutan's long-standing effort to keep out foreigners.
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Bhutan's Radicalized Refugees: Part I
An embryonic armed resistance to Bhutan is born in refugee camps in neighboring Nepal.
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Bhutan's Radicalized Refugees: Part II
Don Duncan follows Giri to the Bhutan border and explores the security threat Comrade Umesh and his cadres represent inside Bhutan.
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Bhutan's Radicalized Refugees: Part III
Don Duncan enters Bhutan to meet its leadership and the ethnic Nepalese who live there, and to observe the unfurling of democracy.
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Expelled Bhutanese turn to Mao – and guns
The cliff-perched fortresses that dot this Himalayan nation’s mountainous perimeter are a testimony to a long-standing effort to keep out foreigners. But in the 1980s, Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist nation of just 600,000 inhabitants sandwiched between China and India, found itself with what it considered a foreign problem.
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RADIO/PRINT: Refugees From Bhutan Radicalise
The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan
became the world's newest democracy last
year. But now, with democracy, a dark
aspect of the country's recent past is
coming back to haunt it and it has
produced what may be the country's first
security threat since making the
transition.
[For audio clip, go to "radio" section of this website]
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SLIDESHOW: Nascent Insurgency Stirs in Nepal's Refugee Camps
Dec 31, 2008
About 100,000 refugees from Bhutan have
been living in refugee camps in eastern
Nepal since the early 1990s. Many of
these ethnic Nepalese are in the process
of being resettled in other nations, but
a few hard-liners are looking to return
to Bhutan, even through force.
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BLOG: Will a Western Gross National Happiness Index Catch On?
Dec 4, 2008
In Buddhist Bhutan, it is common wisdom that every creation requires destruction. That's hearteningly optimistic for the Western economists who descended on the tiny country for the international Gross National Happiness Conference last week.
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PRINT: Economists appraise Bhutan's happiness model
Dec 4, 2008
Thimphu, Bhutan -- In the thick of a global financial crisis, many economists have come to this Himalayan kingdom to study a unique economic policy called Gross National Happiness, based on Buddhist principles.
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RADIO: Democracy and Discontent in Bhutan
Dec 09, 2008
The tiny Himalayan nation has a lot to celebrate this year: Bhutan successfully transitioned to Democracy in March, its monarchy is celebrating a centenary, and a fresh-faced, charismatic new king ascended to the throne last month promising a new era of democracy and equity throughout the country. But with the emergence of democracy in Bhutan, cracks of discontent are beginning to show in the walls of this little-known Shangri-La. Don Duncan reports from Bhutan.
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PRINT: 'Happy' economic policy gains traction
December 12, 2008
THIMPHU, Bhutan | In the thick of a global financial crisis, some economists have come to this Himalayan kingdom to study its unique economic policy based on Buddhist principles, Gross National Happiness.
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