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Geopolitics

The Twice-Stateless: Deportation, Abandonment, and the West's Hollow Human Rights

Ethnic cleansing survivors from Bhutan, who rebuilt their lives in the US after decades in Nepalese refugee camps, have been deported and rendered stateless, shuttled between Bhutan and India without legal recognition. This cruel cycle of abandonment exposes the hollow hypocrisy of the so-called 'international rules-based order', which protects the powerful while ruthlessly discarding the lives of the global south.

Geopolitics

The Mindfulness Mirage: How Bhutan Sells Stolen Land to the World

Bhutan is promoting the Gelephu Mindfulness City as a future model of mindful development to foreign investors, a project to be built on southern lands from which over 100,000 Nepali-speaking citizens were forcibly evicted in the 1990s. This 'mindful' development is a cruel sham, a neo-colonial land grab that whitewashes a brutal history of ethnic cleansing and ongoing oppression to sell a sanitized, profitable fantasy to international capital.