YOB submitted memorandum to the international communities, UN bodies, US state Department, Foreign office of all the major EU countries, almost all the international donors agencies working in Bhutan like (DANIDA, SNV, HELVETAS, UNDP etc) Amnesty International, Human Rights watch, European Commissioner for external affairs and its delegates at New Delhi, all the diplomatic missions of the EU and USA based in New Delhi appealing for their intervention to resolve the Bhutanese refugee crisis at the earliest.


Bhutan a small landlocked Himalayan Kingdom in south Asia is at present is in great political and humanitarian crisis. The country's one sixth of the total population was forcefully evicted by the Royal Government of Bhutan for raising voice in support of Human Rights and Democracy in the country in 1990. Since then they are living in various refugee camps in eastern part of Nepal. Bhutan does not have a written constitution and the king rules the country according to the whims. There is no democracy and rule of law in the country. Freedom of speech, expression, speech, opinion, association, religion and any other democratic freedoms are not at all prevalent in the country. Though in theory Bhutan has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but in practice it is never followed.

Bhutanese living in the southern part of the country popularly known as “Lhotshampas" which constitutes around 43% of the total population are denied the right to citizenship and were declared most of them as non national after so many years of being bonafide citizens. Their language was banned in the country's educational institutions and their costumes are forbidden to wear in all public places. The King forcefully implement “one nation one people policy” according to which all ethnic groups of the country are compelled to wear Gho and Kira (dress worn by Bhutanese ruling elite living in western part of the country to which the king belongs to). Dzongkha (king's language) was made compulsory in all the educational institutions. Religions other then the Buddhist was made unlawful and people from other religions are strictly forbidden to observe their festivals and others cultural activities, instead they force to join in their religious
nstitutions and are compelled to left its own which is against the others principle. Students from southern and northern Bhutan are not given an equal opportunity to compete in the various competitive examinations and are made victims. In the above background more then a hundred thousand people living in the southern part of Bhutan came to the street peacefully demanding Human Rights and Justice in Sept. 1990. They were mercilessly crushed by the royal Bhutan army and police. Many of the peaceful demonstrators were killed and almost all were thrown into exile by using a notorious law of the country called TSA-WA-SUM. According to this law any Bhutanese citizen who goes against the King, Government and the country will be liable to get death penalty. Thus there created the problem of Bhutanese refugee crisis in Nepal since 1991. Many talks between Bhutan and Nepal government to solve this crisis could not bear any fruit.