Anna Husarska: Photo Essay; Refugees from Bhutan

2009-11-19 | In Bhutan, a Himalayan country famed for its focus on Gross National Happiness, the Nepalese minority has been forced out. Anna Husarska traveled to their refugee camps to document their plight.

Born in Bhutan, a Himalayan country of less than a million inhabitants, this woman will probably never again see her homeland; this photo was taken in one of the seven refugee camps in the southeast of Nepal where over a 100.000 Bhutanese of Nepalese origin - like her- have lived since the early 1990s. MORE http://www.opendemocracy.net/anna-husarska/photo-essay-refugees-from-bhutan Please also see: Gross National Happiness http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com Bhutan - The politics of Happiness A short film with Tracy Worcester http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=61122896846197445# Please click photo for clarity.