Nepal’s Refugee Stats:
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In early 1990s, following a new law removing citizenship and civil rights due to ancestry in Bhutan, over 100,000 refugees settled in Nepal
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Nepal is now the home to 32,000 refugees mainly from Bhutan and Tibet
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Over the past 8 years, 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have been resettled in 8 countries
Bhutan’s Refugee Stats:
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The Kingdom’s efforts to impose a single national culture and language and to restrict citizenship led to the displacement of over 100,000 ethnic Nepalese from Bhutan to Nepal between 1988 and 1993.
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Today over 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin live as refugees in 8 countries