- The
Lhotshampa or
Lhotsampa (Nepali: ल्होत्साम्पा; Tibetan: ལྷོ་མཚམས་པ་, Wylie: lho-mtshams-pa)
people are a
heterogeneous Bhutanese people of
Nepali descent...
- to
remove the
Lhotshampa, or
ethnic Nepalis, from Bhutan. Inter-ethnic
tensions in
Bhutan have
resulted in the
flight of many
Lhotshampa to Nepal, many...
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Bhutanese refugees are
Lhotshampas ("southerners"), a
group of
Nepali language-speaking
Bhutanese people.
These refugees registered in
refugee camps in...
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Ngalop of
western and
northern Bhutan, the
Sharchop of
eastern Bhutan, the
Lhotshampa concentrated in
southern Bhutan, and
Bhutanese tribal and
aboriginal peoples...
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Buddhism or
another school of Buddhism.
Almost 22% of
citizens (mainly
Lhotshampas)
practiced Hinduism. The
constitution states that
Buddhism is the state’s...
- Bhutan's
human rights record has
received criticism for the
treatment of the
Lhotshampa people, many of whom
became refugees in Nepal, as well as for failure...
- to the Pew
Research Center 2010. It is
followed mainly by the
ethnic Lhotshampa. The Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Shakta, Ganapathi, Puranic, and
Vedic schools...
- 80,000 and 100,000
Lhotshampas and were
accused of
using widespread violence, torture, rape and killing. The
evicted Lhotshampas became refugees in camps...
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spoken along Bhutan's
borders and
among the
primarily Nepali-speaking
Lhotshampa community in
South and East Bhutan. Chöke (or
classical Tibetan) is the...
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number of
Lhotshampa (Bhutanese Nepalis)
refugees who were
deported from Bhutan.
Every year the
Netherlands has been
resettling around 100
Lhotshampa refugees...
