Reuters AlertNet Lite - Bhutanese refugees clash with Nepal police, boy dies

Reuters AlertNet Full site

NEWSDESK

Bhutanese refugees clash with Nepal police, boy dies

27 May 2007 15:45:14 GMT
Source: Reuters

KATHMANDU, May 27 (Reuters) - A 16-year-old refugee boy was killed and about a dozen other people wounded in a United Nations camp in southeast Nepal on Sunday during a clash between police and asylum seekers from Bhutan, state radio said.

The incident occured in Beldangi camp in Jhapa district after the Nepali police, who had gone to settle a dispute between rival groups of refugees, were attacked by them and were forced to open fire, Radio Nepal said.

"Sixteen-year-old Narapati Dhungel died after police were forced to open fire to bring the situation under control," it said, without giving details.

Jhapa is about 320 km (210 miles) southeast of Kathmandu.

More than 106,000 refugees of ethnic Nepali origin are living in seven U.N.-supported camps in Nepal since fleeing nearby Bhutan 16 years ago, demanding democracy and human rights.

An offer by the United States to resettle tens of thousands of the Bhutanese has sparked tension in recent months between those refugees who favour resettlement in the United States and those who insist on being repatriated.

AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article Send comments

Topics

• Refugees & displacement

MORE >>

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.

Reset map

• Bhutan profile
· View map

• Nepal profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

• Local Committee Members--'We Are the Children of Conflict & Pioneers in the New Sudan.'
NEF - USA

• Nahr el Bared, Liban : Première Urgence lance un programme d'aide humanitaire d'urgence en faveur des réfugiés palestiniens déplacés suite aux affrontements entre l'armée libanaise et le groupe Fatah al Islam
PU - France

• Chad: Vital aid for displaced people
ICRC - Switzerland

• ACT Rapid Response Payment: Refoulement of Afghani Refugees, Afghanistan
ACT - Switzerland

• Thailand: Burmese resettlement offering new opportunities and creating complications
Refugees International - USA

MORE >>

Latest news

• Bhutanese refugees clash with Nepal police, boy dies

• Lebanon's Jumblatt downplays army action at camp

• Nepal child, maternal survival rates up despite war

• NEPAL: Migration takes its toll on villages hit by AIDS

• U.S. sends arms to Lebanon, militants issue warning

MORE >>

Last updated:Sun May 27 15:45:59 2007