By: H.K. Dahal
To keep camp self depended in case of security, exiled Bhutanese have formed Camp Management Committee (CMC) and Camp Welfare Team (CWT). Those committee and team have very significant role to keep camp peace and make exiled Bhutanese aware of undesired problems.
Armed Police Force(APF) post of Sanischare. Photo: Durga Pokhrel
As exiled Bhutanese population was divided into seven different camps before few years back; but now there are only formally four camps left due to merging of camps viz: Beldangi-I, Beldangi-II, Beldangi-II Extension and Sanischare. Again population in each camps are managed into many sectors named A,B,C…Additionally, sectors are again divided into four units 1,2,3,4(But in Sanischare there are five units in each sector).
To run the camps efficiently, refugees used to elect two (male and female) leaders from each unit. After that, two leaders from each unit do elect two sector heads from each sector. All unit leaders and sector heads do elect various posts for CMC and CWT. Mainly Camp Secretary (head of CMC) and chief of CWT have vital role to lead the camps to keep camp safe and peace.
As there are four camps, in spite of four camp secretaries mainly there are only two camp secretaries. There is only one full camp secretary and two deputy in Beldangi (I, II and II Extn.) where as there is one camp secretary and one deputy in Sanischare.
Really these types of systems are unavailable in other refugee camps. CMC and CWT have very great role to keep camp safe and peace. Additionally there are three Armed Police Force (APF) posts in Bhutanese refugee camps. Where there is two APF post in Beldangi and there is one APF post in Sanischare. APF is kept for security of refugees by Nepal Government since about 17 years back. It keeps good relation with CMC and CWT to keep well security of camp. View full article »
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Some years before exile Bhutanese were less interested to form websites and blogs.They used to read the newspaper published in exile.But now www.bhutannewsservice.com,www.refugeesvoice.wordpress.com, www.refugeetimes.blogspot.com and many more are the sites/blogs opened for exile Bhutanese by the Bhutanese itself.Invention of different background of websites and blogs makes the world communicative,closer and wide the narrow mentality.Above websites and blogs are too much important to exile Bhutanese to know the current news regarding Bhutanese.development of sites and blogs at this time in exile is necessary to alive out history,literature and regular updates of the situation which gives challenges to the Bhutan government,who is censoring press activities in this 21st century. 
बाल्यकालदेखि नै बाँसुरी बजाउन शुरू गरेका आस्मान राई खुदुनावारी शिविरका प्रायजसो भूटानीका लागि परिचित नाम हो । अझ, धेरैले यी बाँसुरीका हस्तीलाई ‘बुबु’ भनेर सम्बोधन गर्दछन् । “राई भाषामा बुबु भनेको दाई हो, यो मेरो उपनाम हैन । त्यसकारण मलाई जे भने पनि हुन्छ,” मुसुमुसु हाँस्तै उनी भन्दछन् । कति वर्षदेखि उनले बाँसुरी बजाउन थालेको हो भन्ने उनलाई ठ्याक्कै थाहाँ छैन तर पनि करिब २५ वर्ष जति वितेको उनको तर्क छ ।
Initially, both the government and UNHCR were convinced that the registration process would grant refugee status to all asylum seekers from Bhutan, including Indian and Nepali women married to refugees in camps. But, it was not to be. Some individuals, who missed the official counting intentionally or otherwise, are now struggling to get their status recognised by the government. These include new arrivals from Bhutan, who were expelled recently from the country or released from jails. Now, they have come to the refugee camps to join their family members and friends. The local authority even claims that the ongoing resettlement process has lured some of them and this is why they left the country or married their loved ones from Nepal and India. It might be true that people can be attracted towards resettling in developed countries through marriage chains, but to dare to leave the country to become a refugee for this is unconvincing. It is the right of all asylum seekers to get their status defined so that they don’t remain stateless, and even qualify for any solution of the refugee issue, including third country resettlement and dignified repatriation to the homeland. 
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