Refugee's attack leads to outreach effort

The shooting and stabbing of a Bhutanese refugee April 7 is driving outreach efforts to provide language-specific safety and crime prevention brochures to small immigrant groups who live in the Alief and Sharpstown areas.
Members of the Houston Asian Community Crime Advisory Board and the Greater Sharpstown Management District are locating funds to help pay for the project, said Kenneth Li, who chairs GSMD’s safety and security committee.
“We need to stop this thing. There are 100 of these families, some of them newcomers, and they don’t know how to ask for help,” Li said at the GSMD committee’s April 16 meeting.
The assault occurred about 5 a.m. April 7 as the 23-year-old was waiting for a bus on Ranchester Drive to go to work, said Chris Colaneri, a resettlement program manager with Alliance for Multicultural Community Services.
Colaneri said it was the young man’s third day at his new job with a hotel and his first attempt to take the bus to work.
The alliance began searching for the young man after family members reported he didn’t return home that day, Colaneri said.
They did not learn his fate for a couple of days, when a nurse at Memorial Hermann in the Texas Medical Center suspected her patient may be a refugee and began telephoning Houston’s resettlement agencies, he said.
The young man’s injuries still have prevented him from helping in the police investigation of the assault, said Sgt. Connie Rico with Harris County Precinct 5 Constable’s Department.
Colaneri said the effort by the management district and the Asian community is welcome.
“The apartment owners have been very helpful working with us. Getting information to the residents, if it is simple and in their language, it’s very helpful,” Colaneri said.
His organization, an agency of the United Way, has helped more than 500 Bhutanese refugees relocate to the U.S. in the past couple of years. Many of them were forced to leave their homeland 20 years ago and lived in camps in Nepal before qualifying for resettlement in this country.

Bhutanese Refugees updates from Jhapa

भूटानी शरणार्थी शिविर बेलडाँगीका तीनै वटा शिबिरका पसलहरूमा जाँडरक्सी तथा चुरोटविंडी खरिद विक्रीमा प्रतिबन्ध लगाइएको छ ।
शरणार्थी युवाहरुले चुरोट खाएर शिविरको घरधुरीमा चुरोटको टुक्रा ननिभाइ फाल्ने गरेकाले यो नियम क्याम्प ब्यवस्थापन समितिले लागु गरेको शिबिर सचिब टिवि गुरुङ्गले जानकारी दिनुभयो ।
शरणार्थी शिविरभित्र प्रवेश गर्ने जो सुकैले चुरोट तथा बिंडी पिउन सख्त मनाइ गरिएको छ । शरणार्थी युवाहरुले चुरोटमा गाँजा प्रयोग गरि पिउने गरेकोले वेहोस भई अनैतिक शब्द बोल्ने र जे गर्न मन लाग्यो त्यहि गर्ने गरेकाले त्यस्ता यूवा करिव ५० प्रतिशत पक्राउ गरि कार्वाही गरेको सशस्त्र प्रहरी बलका इन्चार्ज गुणराज बानियाले बताउनु भयो।
आज सशस्त्र प्रहरीले शिविरभित्र छापामारि एक दर्जन बढी चुरोटका बट्टा बरामद गरि नष्ट गरेको छ । त्यस्तै हिजो वेलडाँगी २ का छाप्राहरूमा छापा मारी प्रहरीले ३५ लिटर रक्सी र १६ बट्टा चुरोट बरामद गरेको थियो ।
शरणार्थी शिविरभित्र जाँडरक्सी र चुरोट बिंडी खरिद विक्री गर्न नपाइएने नियम भए पनि लुकीछिपी किनबेच गर्ने क्रम बढ्दो छ ।
शिविरभित्र सुरक्षा व्यवस्था पनि कडा पारिएको छ । साँझ ७ बजेदेखि कोही पनि शिविरभित्र हिंडडुल गर्ने समेत निषेध गरिएको पनि बनियाले जानकारी दिनुभयो ।


परिचय पत्र लिन छुटेका शरणार्थीलाई सहायतामा रोक्का गरिएकोमा उनीहरुका प्रतिनिधिले सहायता खुल्ला गर्न आग्रह गरेका छन् । खुदुनाबारी शरणार्थी शिविरका सचिव भानु ढुंगानाले परिचय पत्र लिन छुटेका शरणार्थीलाई सहायता खुल्ला नगर्ने हो भने संकट सिर्जना हुने चेतावनी दिनु भएको छ । सातै शरणार्थी शिविरमा परिचय पत्र नलिने शरणार्थीको संख्या एक हजारको हाराहारीमा छ । छ महिना लगाएर नेपाल सरकारले सातै शरणार्थी शिविरमा परिचय पत्र बाँड्ने काम चार महिनाअघि मात्र सकेको थियो । त्यसपछि परिचय पत्र लिन छुटेका शरणार्थीलाई सहायता रोक्का गरिएको हो । शरणार्थी समन्वय इकाइबाट अनुमति नलिइ शिविरबाहिर पढ्न, काम गर्न तथा अन्य व्यक्तिगत कामका लागि शरणार्थी शिविरबाट बाहिर गएकाहरु परिचय पत्र लिनबाट वञ्चित भएका हुन् ।
गोलधाप शरणार्थी शिविरमा अन्तरसंस्था भलिवल प्रतियोगिता शुरु भएको छ । प्रतियोगिताको पहिलो दिन अस्ती गोलधाप शरणार्थी शिविर र सोही शिविरको युवामैत्री केन्द्रबीच भएको प्रतियोगितामा युवा मैत्री केन्द्रले जितेको थियो । त्यस्तै हिजो भएको प्रतियोगितामा व्लुमिङ लोटस इंग्लिस स्कूललाई आम्दाले जितेको थियो । गोलधाप शरणार्थी शिविरको इन्टेरियर साइन्स कर्नरले गरेको प्रतियोगिताको फाइनल खेल आउँदो बुधबार हुनेछ । प्रतियोगितामा लुथरन विश्वमहासंघ, शिविरको सुरक्षामा खटिएको सशस्त्र प्रहरी, कारितास, अंग्रेजी भाषा कक्षा लगायतका संस्था र समूहको सहभागिता छ ।


भुटानले आउँदो १० दश भित्रमा बैदेशिक ऋण लिन नपर्ने गरि आर्थिक विकासको नयाँ नीति ल्याएको छ । गएको शुक्रबार सार्वजनिक गरिएको नीति अनुसार भुटानले निजी साझेदारी अवधारणाको विकास गरि प्रत्यक्ष वैदेशिक लगानीलाई बढावा दिने भएको छ । नयाँ नीति अनुसार सूचना प्रविधि र शैक्षिक प्रणालीको विकास गर्ने लक्ष्य रहेको क्यूनसेल अनलाईलमा जनाइएको छ । त्यस्तै घरेलु र साना उद्योग सञ्चालन गर्न चाहनेलाई तीन बर्षसम्मको वहाल खर्च दिइने भएको छ ।

Update on Resettlement

अहिलेसम्म पुनरवास भएर तेश्रो देश जाने शरणार्थीको संख्या २८ हजार ६ सय सतासी पुगेको छ । शरणार्थीको पुनर्वासको व्यवस्थापकीय काम गर्दै आएको संस्था आइओएमका अनुसार सवैभन्दा बढी अमेरिकामा पुनर्वास भएका छन् । अहिलेसम्म अमेरिकामा २५ हजार चार सय ३८ शरणार्थी पुनरस्थापित भएका छन् । त्यसैगरि अष्ट्रेलियामा एक हजार तीन सय ११, क्यानाडामा एक हजार ७८, न्यूजिल्याण्डमा चारसय सात, नेदरल्याण्ड १२७, नर्वेमा ३२४ र डेनमार्कमा ३२६ शरणार्थी पुनर्स्थापित भएका छन् ।

P.E.I. could settle more refugees

P.E.I. is likely to play a role in resettling some of the refugees recently approved for a federal program.
Ottawa recently approved the resettling of 500 more refugees under the Government-Assisted Refugees Program. The program is targeted at people stuck in refugee camps.
Madan Kumar Giri is all too familiar with refugee camps. He and his family spent 16 years in one of the refugee camp in Nepal, before resettling on P.E.I. four years ago. Giri and his family were forced out of their country for political reasons.
"We have a very nice system here in Canada," Giri told CBC News Thursday.
"We have a place to live in, we have a country. As a whole we feel very, very happy to be here."

The Giris were allowed to come to the Island under the Government-Assisted Refugees Program. There are between 65 and 70 refugees who have come to the Island under the program. More are now expected.
"Citizenship and Immigration … would have to look at whether or not, in discussions with us, whether we could accommodate more," said Craig Mackie of the P.E.I. Association for Newcomers, "making sure we could look after them properly and settle them."
Mackie said the association helps refugees with a broad range of issues, from learning English to learning how to use a dishwasher.

Some cost to province
It's too early to say how many new refugees could come to the Island, said Paul Snow of Citizenship and Immigration Canada on P.E.I. It will partly be a matter of how many the province can afford. "There are of course costs that the province ends up being responsible for as well: medicare costs and social costs in schools and things like that," said Snow.

"On the other hand there are benefits to the province of having a higher population and more cosmopolitan international population."

Snow said the federal government is willing to provide more funding as more refugees settle here.

PM Nepal asks his Bhutanese counterpart to take back refugees

Visiting Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigme Y. Thinley called on his Nepali counterpart Madhav Kumar Nepal and held discussion on issues of bilateral interests at the Prime Ministerial office in Kathmandu.

During the meeting, PM Nepal raised the contentious issue of Bhutanese refugees, most of the them still languishing in the refugee camps in eastern Nepal, and sought the support of the Bhutan government in their repatriation.

"It is the inborn right of the Bhutanese refugees to get repatriated with due respect as the third country settlement option is not a lasting solution to the crisis," Rajan Bhattarai, Foreign Relations Advisor to the PM quoted him as saying to his Bhutanese counterpart.

In reply, the Bhutanese Prime Minister is said to have stressed on more bilateral talks to find out an amicable solution to the refugee problem.

Bhutan is concerned about the refugee crisis and is ready to hold talks with Nepal, though the third country settlement process is underway satisfactorily," Thinley said.
The two government heads also dwelt on the possible agendas of the upcoming SAARC Summit scheduled to be held in Bhutan this year. The two further agreed to raise the issue of climate change as a priority agenda in the forthcoming regional meet.
Early today, Thinley arrived in Kathmandu to extend a message of condolence on his own and on behalf of the Bhutanese people to the government and people of Nepal on the 13 day of the demise of former prime minister the late Girija Prasad Koirala.
He flew back home this evening.

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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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