Bhutan to Blacktown - Dhungel, Om
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I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall I gained everything. Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry, including Om Dhungel and his family. Bhutan to Blacktown tells Om Dhungels remarkable story his journey from a remote village to a senior position in the Bhutanese Civil Service to life as a human rights activist in Nepal and, eventually to his work as a community leader in…mehr

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I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall I gained everything. Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry, including Om Dhungel and his family. Bhutan to Blacktown tells Om Dhungels remarkable story his journey from a remote village to a senior position in the Bhutanese Civil Service to life as a human rights activist in Nepal and, eventually to his work as a community leader in Blacktown western Sydney. Every step prepared Om for the central role he would play in settling more than 5000 Bhutanese refugees in one of the most successful refugee initiatives in Australias history. Written with Walkley Award-winning journalist James Button Bhutan to Blacktown is a story of grit and struggle humour and irrepressible optimism and how losing nearly everything shaped one mans character and fate.
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Om Dhungel arrived in Australia as a student in 1998 before being granted a refugee visa in light of the Bhutanese Government's persecution of the ethnic Nepalese of southern Bhutan. As inaugural president of the Association of Bhutanese in Australia, Om played a critical role in the settlement of 5000 Bhutanese refugees in Australia. Before coming to Australia he was a senior civil servant in Bhutan's Department of Telecommunications, then, while a refugee in Nepal, general secretary of the Human Rights Organisation of Bhutan and co-editor of The Bhutan Review . James Button is a former journalist and Europe correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is the author of Speechless: A year in My Father's Business and Comeback: The Fall and Rise of Geelong, and has won three Walkley awards and a Melbourne Press Club Quill for feature writing. He is a freelance writer and editor.