BCP Cadres Disrupt UNHCR Meeting with Refugees
Activists of the Bhutan Communist Party (Marxists-Leninists -Maoists) (BCP-MLM) have prevented the UNHCR representatives from holding consultations with the Bhutanese refugees. The UNHCR officials had come here in Beldangi camp to hold consultations with the Bhutanese refugees on resettlement plan, but they returned after the BCP-MLM members disrupted their meeting.
Resettlement and International Protection Director Vincent Cochepal and Sustainable Solutions Officer Berna Dette visited the refugee camp. The communist cadres told the UNHCR representatives that they did not want their resettlement in the third countries but repatriation to their homeland.
The UNHCR office in Geneva had assigned them to Nepal to brief the refugees about its resettlement plan in the third countries. They had held consultations with secretary, under-secretary and women refugee representatives of the camps yesterday.