A day after nearly 100 refugee families displaced by the fire launched a sit-in program, the local administration allowed them to live in Beldangi, where they had been living ever since fleeing Bhutan nearly two decades ago. [break]
The agitating refugees called off their protests after Yogendra Prasad Dulal, assistant chief district officer of Jhapa and deputy director of Refugee Coordination Committee, assured the displaced refugees that they would be resettled again in Beldangi.
“We were forced to organize protest programs after the administration and donor agencies tried to shift us to other abandoned huts,” said Hedchandra Magar, one of the displaced refugees.
“Now, we have called off our protest programs.” On Monday, as part of their sit-in, the agitating refugees had prevented all vehicles of donor agencies, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), from entering into the Beldangi camp.
Later, talking to Republica, Dulal said they would start building huts for refugees in Beldangi from Wednesday. “New huts will be built in a planned way,” said Dulal.
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