Some 15 Bhutanese women refugees have joined in the hunger strike.[break]
Announcing the initiation of the strike, chairperson of the Bhutanese Refugees Repatriation Committee (BRRC), Dr. Bhampa Rai accused the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees of failing to address their basic needs.
Those refugees who have not got identity cards have been deprived of the government facilities including ration, he said.
President of Human Rights Organization, Nepal, Damak chapter, Dev Subedi accused the government of not becoming serious towards the rights of the Bhutanese refugees.
Some 3,749 Bhutanese refugees in five refugees camps in Jhapa and Morang districts have not received identity cards due to various technical reasons and they have been deprived of the government relief package, said Durga Devi Bista, chairperson of the relief-deprived Bhutanese women´s group.
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