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Ohio committee hears emotional testimony urging resolution on Bhutanese expulsions
Summary
More than a dozen witnesses, including refugees and community leaders, urged the Senate to adopt SR69 acknowledging alleged ethnic cleansing and urging accountability and family reunification for tens of thousands of displaced Bhutanese; witnesses cited U.N. and human‑rights reports and recounted personal abuse, detention and long separations.
The committee heard a lengthy, multi‑witness hearing on Senate Resolution 69, a bipartisan resolution sponsored in the transcript by Senator Reynolds that urges recognition and accountability for the forced expulsion and ongoing mistreatment of ethnic Nepali Bhutanese.
Representative Suraj Budathoki urged the committee to support SR69 and summarized international findings from UN bodies and human rights organizations documenting arbitrary arrests, restrictions on speech and discrimination against Lhotampa and other minority groups.…
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