I left Bhutan in 1991 due to the ethnic cleansing targeting Nepalese speaking people at that time as part of the government’s One People, One Nation, One Language campaign. Suddenly, marriages between our cultural group were discouraged and we were forced to marry interculturally. They also tried to force us to speak a different language, and to eat beef, even though we are Hindu. People who fought back were taken to prison and tortured, and women and girls were raped in front of their families. The only way for us to leave the country was if we signed . . .
I left Bhutan in 1991 due to the ethnic cleansing targeting Nepalese speaking pe…
