Activists of the Bhutan Gorkha National Liberation Front (BGNLF) staged a protest programme at Funsoling, at the Bhutan-India border, calling the 8th round of talks between Nepal and Bhutan to solve the refugee problem a failure. They say the talks have failed because of the Bhutanese non-cooperation.

More than 100 protesters, led by BGNLF’s central members Aaiman Rai and Bom Bahadur Ghale, chanted slogans calling the stoppage of the bilateral talks and for repatriation of the refugees.

According to the general secretary of the Front, most of the protesters were arrested by the Bhutanese police and some were arrested by the Indian police on the Indian side of the border at Hashimara.

(Nepal Samacharpatra, September 18, Saturday)