A community-edited reference article on Bhutan's expulsion of the Lhotshampa, its ethnic Nepali, predominantly Hindu minority, covering the 16 January 1989 nationwide extension of the Driglam Namzha dress and conduct code under the "One Nation, One People" policy, the 1988 census that reclassified many long-settled Lhotshampa as illegal immigrants, the labeling of resisters as "antinationals" and their reported arrest, rape and torture per Amnesty International, and the resulting expulsion of more than 100,000 people, roughly a sixth of Bhutan's population, into refugee camps in Nepal by the mid-1990s.
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Reliability TierCommunity-edited reference page, tier 3. Its figures and account of the Driglam Namzha policy and the 1990 protests are drawn from and checkable against the human-rights and journalistic reporting (Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Minority Rights Group) it cites. Citation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Lhotshampa_in_Bhutan 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Amnesty International directly: "reported arrest, rape and torture per Amnesty International, and the resulting expulsion of more than 100,000 people, roughly a sixth of Bhutan's population, into refugee camps in Nepal by the..."
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- Religious Events, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
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