Lollypop from unfaithful man
Every issue that Kuensel produces used to be a readable content for me, with much attention, reading repeatedly to know the matter in details. Reading a news used to be followed by other searches and past documents that I save with my computer at home. But as I read one news that appeared recently in Kuensel, I could not stop myself to laughter.
The most treacherous and under-handed in Bhutanese politics Mr Jigmi Thinley claimed the Bhutanese refugee issue could not be solved due to political instability that marred Nepal for the last few years.
Isn’t it a deceitful and unworthy statement? The issue is not related with Nepal, it is between Bhutan and the Bhutanese citizens. There is no meaning of sitting in bilateral talks with Nepal.
We have be precedence of deceive and unfaithful behaviors that Bhutanese tyrants played. For long, it had remained a pawn to the hands of the Indian establishments and now the crux of the problem is liable to come out.
Sometime ago, Kuensel wrote an editorial claiming that resettlement of Bhutanese refugees have paved a way for spreading ‘wrong’ information about Bhutan in western world. I forthright, gave counter at apfanews.com, which forced the feeble-hearted royal journalists to stop that editorial from uploading to the site. The editorial had reached to my inbox through a journalists in that paper as well, but I waited to see original paper if it was the same piece.
Then there were information from cabinet sources saying Mr Thinley has started groundwork for establishing diplomatic relations with those countries who are taking Bhutanese refugees for resettlement. In the long run, no matter how bitterly the current politicians bark, it will be source for them to run their parties, to meet their interests. The hated will turn to be fortune, their future lies on the hands of Diaspora.
The nature has already been on the sun, how unpolitical is the Thinley, how corruptive was his tenure under absolute rule. The nature hasn’t change, and as Bhutanese society opens up to question his behaviors, he comes up with irritation, condemnation even teaching journalists how to write news. How would he had acted had there been some independent and senior journalists to ask him questions when he made proclamation about ‘little deeds’ in 100 days?
Bhutanese political sphere lives on money, but talks of combating corruption in bureaucracy, bridging the income-gap between rural and urban residents and pondering happiness among the denizens. I think GNH has been a lollypop for the desperate poor citizens to stop crying.
Talking about resuming the bilateral talks is another tactics to fool the international community. There are no hopes, even at the end of the tunnel, that Bhutan tyrants will be faithful until we become financially strong. Resettlement has given us hope to revive our financial strengths, and we hope to recover it within a decade.
This will be our responsibility not only to be financially strong within self but to upgrade our relatives within the country who have been facing the burnt to suppression today. The fight continues, no conern to the lollypop from Mr Thinley.