Refugee Camp in Nepal Destroyed

Can things get worse for refugees? Unfortunately, the answer is often yes. Charles Haviland reports for the BBC:

The UN says a fire in Nepal which destroyed most of a camp housing refugees from Bhutan is a disaster.

Officials say 10,000 refugees are now homeless. The cause is unknown.

The refugees are ethnic Nepalese forced out of Bhutan in the 1990s by the government, which was concerned over a Hindu minority in a Buddhist country.

Bhutan and Nepal are at loggerheads over how to solve the problem, although some have been presented with the option of resettlement abroad.

The camp is one of seven which since 1990 have been home to more than 100,000 ethnic Nepalese people from Bhutan. Click here for the rest of the story.

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