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हालसम्म पुनर्वास गइसकेका बाहेक नेपालको झापा र मोरङमा रहेका सात शिविरका शरणार्थीहरुलाई आगामी दुइ महिनाभित्रमा अमेरिकाले लगिसक्ने भएको छ । अमेरिका वाहेक अन्य देशका लागि प्रकृयामा रहेका शरणार्थीहरुलाई अमेरिकाले ती देशहरुमा दुइ महिनाभित्रमा लगि सक्नु पर्ने, यदि नसक्ने भएमा अमेरिकालाई जानकारी दिन सात दिनको समयसीमा तोकिदिएको छ । जुन शरणार्थीहरुलाई अन्य देशहरुले २ महिनामा उडाउन सक्दैनन् उनीहरुको प्रकृया अप्रिल १० तारिकदेखि अमेरिकाका लागि शुरु हुने पनि जनाइएको छ ।

आज विहानै नेपालका लागि अमेरिकका कार्यवाहक राजदुत डोनाल्ड क्याम्पले नेपाल टेलिभिजनमार्फत उक्त जानकारी गराएका हुन् ।

उनले भने - परिवारिक विखण्डन, शिविरभित्रका शरणार्थीहरुको असुरक्षा, असामाजिक कृयाकलाप र उछृङ्खलता बढेको शरणार्थीहरुले गुनासो गरेपछि मानविय आधारमा अमेरिकाले यस्तो निर्णय गरेको हो । यो प्रकृया अलिकति जटिल त छ, तर हामी हाम्रो वलवुताले भ्याएसम्म मे महिनाको अन्तिम दिनसम्ममा भए पनि भुटानी शरणार्थीका लागि नेपालमा बनाइएका सातै वटा शिविर खाली गरिसक्नेछौं । उनले अगाडि थपे - पुनर्वासमा जान नचाहनेहरुका लागि एउटा मात्र विकल्प बाँकी रहेको र त्यो विकल्प भनेको दुइ हप्तापछि भुटानमा हुने सोह्रौं सार्क शिखर सम्मेलनमा पर्यवेक्षकका रुपमा गएका अमेरिका लगायतका देशहरुले भुटानसँग उसका नागरिक फर्काउन दवाव दिने, यदि भुटानले फर्काउन नचाहेमा ती शरणार्थीहरुले आफ्नो व्यवस्था दुइ महिनाभित्रमा आफैं गरिसक्नु पर्नेछ, मे महिनाको पहिलो हप्तादेखि शरणार्थीका लागि भनेर बसेका कुनै पनि कार्यालय रहने छैनन् ।

अन्तमा उनले भने - यो कार्यमा अमेरिकालाई साथ दिन पुनर्वास दिने अन्य सातवटा देशका साथै सवै भुटानी शरणार्थीहरु, नेपाल सरकार र सम्वन्धित सवैलाई अमेरिकी सरकारका तर्फबाट म हार्दिक अनुरोध गर्दछु ।
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Bhutanese Cultural Interaction Held at Eastmont Wellness Center

The Bhutanese and other Himalayan community members have a lot to thank for to the medical personnel at Eastmont Wellness Center, who have always been there for our communities ‘health needs. So as a gesture of thanks, the staffs were treated with their own private event present with entertainment and cultural food.

The event was organized by the Bhutanese American Community Center (BACC) in close coordination with Ms. Nisha Thapa, a family nurse practitioner and president of Sahayeta.Org, Mrs. Sambo Ly, director of refugee program in Alameda county medical center. It was a unique special way to say thank you to the doctors, nurses, and staff of Eastmont Wellness Center of Alameda County Health Department, for their extra ordinary care and services rendered to the Bhutanese and other Himalayan communities.BACC executives were confident that the relationship between Bhutanese community and Alameda County Health Department - Eastmont wellness center, High land Hospital and Oakland Children’s Hospital would strengthen and meet the expectations of our communities.

Over 70 medical personnel were present for the lunch who delightfully relished traditionally Bhutanese dishes—such as kewa, darshi, chicken paa, rice and dal. Mr. Jiwan subba, secretary of BACC briefs the entire medical personnel on Bhutan, its refugees and resettlement in the East Bay’s- fast emerging community While at lunch a solo dance performance was staged by Ms. Pooja Sharma a student at the local community college in Oakland. BACC and Alameda County Hospitals have come to redefine the paradigm of their relationships, to build a stronger bridge between themselves wherein the community can now address general health issues more comfortably and confidently.

SAARC Summit on April 28-29,Preparation Completed

The 16th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will be held in Bhutan on April 28-29 this year.

Leaders of the eight-nation group will focus on climate issues at the summit, an apparent regional follow-up of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on securing global pledges on emission cuts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already been invited to atend the summit

Diplomatic sources told BSS here on Saturday that nearly 450 delegates from the member-states Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and host country Bhutan are expected to atend the summit, besides a 150-member media team.

In addition, 68 editors and journalists from South Asia would participate in the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) summit, a customary event parallel to the SAARC summit

The summit will also be atended by observers from China, Japan, European Union, Republic of Korea, USA, Australia, Mauritius and Iran.

The pre-summit meetings will commence in the third week of April at the Bhutan's Royal Banquet Hall while the main summit will be held at the country's National Assembly Hall.

The Bhutan Observer reported recently that Thimphu, Capital of the Himalayan Kingdom, would receive a major facelift with gates, flags and banners.

शरणार्थी सेरोफेरो

अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय महिला दिवस आज सातै भुटानी शरणार्थी शिविरहरूमा विभिन्न कार्यक्रम गरि मनाइयोयस क्रममा भुटानी शरणार्थी शिविर वेलडाँगीका महिलाहरूले महिला अधिकार नै मानव अधिकार हो भन्दै विभिन्न नाराका साथ शिविर परिक्रम गरि महिला मञ्चको खुल्ला प्रांगणमा कोण सभा गरेका थिए ।


नारीका प्रत्यक्ष तथा अप्रत्यक्ष पिडाहरुलाई सम्बोधन गर्ने उद्देश्यले भूटान मिडिया सोसाइटी र भुटानी महिला मञ्चको संयुक्त आयोजनमा (बेलडाँगी १को महिला मञ्चमा) शरणार्थी महिलाहरुको दयनिय अवस्था र दिन प्रतिदिन बढ्दो घरेलु हिंसालाई कसरी रोकथाम गर्न सकिन्छ भने विषयमा अर्न्तकृयात्मक छलफल गरि हरेक समस्याको समाधान खोज्ने प्रयास गरिएको छ ।
एक सय औं अर्न्तराष्ट्रिय श्रमिक महिला दिवसमा समाजका असहाय महिला तथा एकल महिलालाई अगाडि बढाउने उद्देश्य लिएर बेलडाँगी १ का चन्द्रमाया विश्व र दिलमाया राईलाई महिला मञ्चले उपहार दिएको थियो । उपहार लिएपछि दिलमाया र चन्द्रमायाले सहयोगी सस्थाहरु जि एच आर डि, नेदरलेन्डमा पूनरवास भएका भूटानीहरुलाई धन्यवाद दिएका दिए ।

महिला मञ्चका सल्लहकार अमर लिम्बु, भूपु क्याम्प सचिब शनिश्चरे मेनुका नेपाल, रनमाया चापागाई, शिविर सुपरिवेक्षक हर्क ब. राई, यूएनएचसिआरका प्रतिनिधि गंगा सेन, शिविर सचिब टि.बि.गुरुङ्ग आदिले युग परिवर्तन संगसंगै महिलाहरुको अधिकार पनि प्राप्त हुनुपर्छ भन्दै मन्तव्य राखेका दिए ।

सात शरणार्थी शिविरमा विभिन्न तरिकाले माहिला दिवस केन्द्रीय महिला मञ्चले सम्पन्न गरेका छन् भने बेलडागी १ मा पनि पूनवास भएका भूटानीहरुको सहयोग र विदेशी संस्था जिएचआर डिको संयुक्त सहयोगमा महिला दिवाश महिला मञ्चकी सचिब पुणिमाया राईको सभाध्याक्षतामा सम्पन्न भएको छ ।

गोलधाप शिविरमा भुटानी शरणार्थी महिला मञ्चले आयोजना गरेको कार्यक्रममा र्यालीका साथै वालन र संगीनी खेलि अन्तराष्ट्रिय महिला दिवस मनाएका छन् ।

महिलाहरु कृयाशिलता एवम् सृजनशिलता नै विश्व परिवर्तनको नमुना हो भन्दै नेपाल सरकारका प्रतिनिधि हर्क ब. राईले भूटानी महिलाहरुलाई अग्रसर हु्ने प्रेरणा दिनु भएको थियो भने गंगा सेनले पुरुषहरुले पनि महिलाहरु को अधिकार संरक्षण गर्न अहम भुमिका खेल्नु पर्ने भन्दै चोटीलो महत्ब्य ब्यक्त गर्नुभएको थियो । साथै यूवा मैत्री केन्द्रका यूवाहरुले हामी पनि सक्छौं -महिला अधिकार खोज्न र शिविरलाई शान्त बनाउन भन्दै विभिन्न प्रकारका समाज परिवर्तन गर्ने खालका गित तथा नृत्य प्रस्तुत गरेकोमा प्रेरणा स्वरुप उपहार प्रदान गरियो ।
भूटानी शरणार्थी शिविर बेलाडगी २मा आज करिब १ बजेतिर एक भूटानी महिलाले झुण्डिएर आत्महत्या गरेकी छिन् ।

शरणार्थी शिविर वेलडाँगी २, डी ४ छाप्रा नं. ५७ की पविमाया कार्कीले नजिकैको हम्सेदुम्से सामुदायिक वनमा गई आत्महत्या गरेकी हुन् । उनले पहिलेको श्रीमानलाई छोडेर अर्को पुरुषसँग दोश्रो विवाह गरेपछि समाजले उनलाई पहिलेकै श्रीमानसँग फर्किन दवाव दिएपछि आत्महत्या गरेको हुन सक्ने प्रहरीको अनुमान छ ।
भुटानी शरणार्थी वालमञ्चले आजदेखि तीन दिने योजना तालिम दिन शुरु गरेको छ । सातै शिविरका गरि ३० जना वाल सहजकर्ता र केन्द्रीय पदाधिकारीहरुको सहभागितमा तालिम भइरहेको छ । असहाय वालवालिकाहरुको हितलाई ध्यान दिइ उक्त तालिमको आयोजना गरिएको हो । काठमाण्डौबाट आउनु भएका वाल विशेषज्ञ प्रतिनिधि प्रकाश कोइरालाले तालिममा सहजीकरण गरिरहनु भएको छ ।





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Finally Goodbye for the Refugee Camp.

Nine-month-old Loria Basnet, held by Amrita Siwakota, Tahal Man Khadka (left) and Dhanmaya Khadka are among the Bhutanese who arrived Wednesday.

IT may have only been five days of travel for the group of people from Bhutan, but their journey that ended in Winnipeg late Wednesday night has been a lifetime in the making.

More than 30 Bhutanese refugees have taken up residence at the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council's Welcome Place housing facility as they get used to a new city, a new country and a new beginning.

The unfamiliar surroundings have the group excited for the future.

"My friends are here, we travelled a long way together, and I hope to make many new friends in Canada," said Tulashi Ram Siwakoti, who is looking forward to learning more about Canada.

The group, ranging in ages from eight months to 79 years, has actually been out of their native Bhutan for nearly 20 years. Resigned to find lives in a refugee camp in Nepal after being forced out of southern Bhutan through what Chitra Pradhan "social blackmail," the group has come a long way to get to Manitoba.

Pradhan has been assisting the mass move, and shakes his head when describing the situation in Bhutan. There are three groups of people in the Asian country (bordered by the India to the south, east and west, and by China to the north), with the northern Bhutanese using fear and intimidation to force out southern peoples.

"I don't want to call it a social cleansing, but it's like that," said Pradhan, who came to Winnipeg in 1992. "These people have been through more than you can imagine. They've been forced to leave Bhutan without any possessions."

As expected, the journey to Canada was no weekend trip.

The group left camp in Nepal on Feb. 27 headed for the country's capital, Kathmandu. From there, they caught a flight to Abu Dhabi. After stops in London and Toronto, they landed at Winnipeg at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

"It was my first time flying," Dilli Ram Mahat said through a translator. "I had no problem eating the food. I ate everything they gave me."

Mahat, one of the elders of the group at 65 years old, said the biggest thing for him in coming to Canada was getting a chance to reconnect with family members.

"I'm excited to be in Canada because my daughter and son-in-law have been living here," he said. "Coming together to live with the family is a greater excitement."

The Bhutanese community in Winnipeg now stands at around 150 people. Canada will welcome 5,000 refugees from Bhutan this year.

SAARC Summit: preparations in full swing

The preparations for the 16th SAARC summit are underway in earnest with various royal government agencies spearheading the work gearing towards a March end completion deadline.

In all, about 450 delegates are expected to attend the summit, besides a media contingent of approximately 150, which will converge to the capital from the airport in Paro, as well as by road from Phuentsholing.

In addition, 86 editors and journalists from South Asia have already confirmed their participation in the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) organised SAARC journalist summit, which is customarily held in the host country parallel to the SAARC summit.

Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering reported to the prime minister yesterday at a meeting held to take stock of the preparatory progress so far that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is confident all physical works and services will soon be in place.

The pre-summit meetings will commence from the third week of April at the Royal Banquet Hall, while the summit on April 28-29 will be held in National Assembly hall. The retreat for the SAARC leaders will be hosted at hotel Terma Linka in Babesa.

Thimphu will receive a major facelift with gates, flags and banners planted all over the places. A massive clean-up campaign of the town and the riverbank will begin shortly, involving Thimphu’s residents. The facades and rooftops of the buildings falling along the route of the dignitaries will all be done up.

The road between Thimphu and Paro will be improved for safety, while hundreds of school children and other residents waving the flags of SAARC and SAARC countries will receive the dignitaries along the way.

The heads of states and governments, foreign ministers and foreign secretaries will be housed at the Ministers’ Enclave in Motithang, the major facelift work of which is expected to be complete by March 31.

The rest of the dignitaries will be accommodated in 188 rooms in 10 hotels that have already been booked. The possibilities of keeping journalists in Paro are being looked into if Thimphu runs out of hotel rooms.

An elaborate security arrangement is being made besides entertainments showcasing Bhutanese culture.

The preparations, in fact, are being done with the minutest detail from food, traffic movements, control rooms, media centers, gifts and helicopters for emergency medical requirements to docking space at Paro airport for aircrafts that the leaders will fly in. PAGE 6In all 14 sub-committees have been formed to carry out the preparations.

“I have no doubt you are doing your best; our success will be determined from day one,” The prime minister told the meeting. “It’s the mood that we will create that will determine the outcome of the summit.”

The summit will also be attended by observers from China, Japan, European Union, Republic of Korea, USA, Australia, Mauritius and Iran.