March 9, 2008
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7286160.stm
After more than 15 years of waiting, the first Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have started to leave for a new life in other countries.
More than 100,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese people have been in refugee camps in Nepal since the early 1990s.
The mainly Hindu people were forced out of Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom which has a code of national conformity.
Bhutan, which maintains that most left voluntarily, has never allowed any to return to the country.