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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.