Bhutan in the Hands of a Madman: Basic Facts and Analysis
1. Bhutan is an anti-national despotic state that is largely characterized by beggarly parasitism (India and multilateral agencies fill 92% of Bhutan's budget), downright disrespect for regional security obligations (the anti-Indian groups ULFA, NDFB and KLO are provided a safe haven in Bhutan during 12 years), and rapidly increasing dependency on the West in terms of technology, education of bureaucracy, decadent lifestyle, materialistic "development", etc.
2. The kinglet Jigme forms Bhutan's policy single-handedly. There are subterranean conflicts of interests that involve the Bhutanese clans of Dorji and Wangchuck, but they can be disregarded for the most part.
3. A son of an alcoholic father who died at 44, Jigme suffers from a bad case of latent autism and developed paranoia that heavily affect his perception and reactions. Jigme's only ambition is that "Bhutan (i.e. the kinglet himself) would be left alone".
4. To accomplish this paranoiac "objective", he introduced changes in Bhutan's nationality laws that resulted in political protests and led to ethnic conflict and repression of Bhutanese in southern districts during the late 1980's and early 1990's. As a result of ethnic cleansing, tens of thousands of Bhutanese left Bhutan in 1991-92, many forcibly expelled. 5000-7000 reportedly was subject to political repressions and went missing. Approximately 110,000 Bhutanese remain in refugee camps in Nepal and upwards of 30,000 reside outside the camps in the Indian states of Assam and West Bengal. One third of the remaining population of 600 000 still experiences severe infringement of rights on the grounds of ethnicity, religion and other socio-cultural aspects.
5. These developments clearly demonstrate the kinglet's psychopathologic tendency to clearing space assigned exclusively for his private use - in political, material and purely spatial terms.
6. DART holds that a decisive sort of "either-or" political
situation has taken shape in our country. If the morbid intentions of
the crowned madman will prevail, Bhutan is doomed to cease existing as
a national entity. We insist definitely that Bhutan's national and regional
interests are of incomparably more value than the disastrous delirium
of the royal maniac Jigme - who has leaded the nation to the ethnical
catastrophe and must therefore die.