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Title: Maoist crisis spreads in Himalayas; Eastern Nepal hosts refugees from Bhutan.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: WESTERN ASIA)
Publication: The Washington Times (Newspaper)
Date: May 24, 2003
Publisher: News World Communications, Inc.
Page: A08Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Byline: Chitra Tiwari, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
While Nepal has received widespread international attention, due mainly to its seven-year Maoist insurgency, Bhutan another Himalayan kingdom, about the size of Switzerland, with a population of 2 million has failed until now to attract similar international attention.
But that may change.
An ethnic crisis in Bhutan has led to the exodus of nearly 100,000 people of Nepali origin since 1990. They are languishing in seven refugee camps in eastern Nepal operated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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