Description: The project and information for the animation short film, Dear His Majesty by Avishkar Chhetri at the Royal College of Art. In regards to the Bhutanese Refugees
The Peripheral People
Dear His Majesty
After an arbitrary census was held in Bhutan (1989), the government of Bhutan displaced approximately 100,000 Southern Bhutanese (Lhotshampas) out of Bhutan. There are several explanations for the expulsion/displacement as well as the conflict between the Lhotshampa and the Northern government, which a series of protests in the late 80s were held within the country against the government’s repressive ‘One Nation One People’ policy; illegalising Nepali/Lhotshampa cultural practices under the social code of c