The 18-Year Refugee Crisis You've Never Heard of

Here is a very interesting article on a refugee crisis most people are unfamiliar with.  

In the early 1990s in the tiny Himalayan nation Bhutan, the majority-supported Drukpa (a Buddhist sect) ruling elite began a campaign that purged the nation of it's minority Lhotsampas' -- people of Nepali origin that lived in the south of Bhutan.  That population, now near 107,000, have sat idly for the past 18 years in a group of UN refugee camps in the east of Nepal.  

This past year the U.S. and some other western nations declared they would offer resettlement to up to 60,000 of those refugees.  Chicago was a major destination for many of those participating in the resettlement program.  

I was fortunate enough to become friends with a young refugee now living in Chicago, along with his six-member immediate family, plus an extended family too numerous to count.  I did some reporting on the refugee situation and the resettlement process for a class that I hope to submit somewhere once I brush it up a little.  For those interested, here is a link to a very very rough draft of that continuing story.