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	Royal Bhutan Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA), formed in 1950, is the all-volunteer army of the Kingdom of Bhutan.
		The RBA is a mobile infantry force lightly armed with weapons supplied by India, engaged mainly in border security, including security at Paro Airport and other important installations.
		Army troops were in action in late 2003 in the south-eastern dzonkhags, against the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom, which had built up a network of permanent jungle refuges there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Bhutan_Army (391 words)

	Bhutan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bhutan is one of the most isolated nations in the world; foreign influences and tourism are heavily regulated by the government to preserve its traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture.
		The climate in Bhutan varies with altitude, from subtropical in the south to temperate in the highlands and polar-type climate, with year-round snow, in the north.
		Bhutan's economy is one of the world's smallest and least developed, and is based on agriculture, forestry, and the sale of hydroelectric power to India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhutan (5265 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bhutan - Armed Forces \| Bhutanese Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Royal Bhutan Army was organized as a regular military force in the 1950s with the encouragement of India and in response to China's takeover of Tibet.
		The army's primary mission was border defense, but it also has assisted the Royal Bhutan Police in performing internal security duties (see Police Force, this ch.).
		Royal Bhutan Army cadets were sent to the National Defence Academy at Pune, followed by training at the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun, from which they were commissioned as second lieutenants.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/bhutan/bhutan83.html (1072 words)

	IPCS - Databases
		Bhutan is ruled by a hereditary monarch, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, who governs with the support of a National Assembly and a Council of Ministers.
		The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) was organized as a regular military force in the 1950s, with the encouragement of India and in response to the takeover of Tibet by China.
		The Royal Bhutan Police is subordinate to the RBA and is headquartered in each district and subdistrict.
	www.ipcs.org /newDatabaseIndex2.jsp?database=1002&country2=Bhutan (1508 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		The 6000 Royal Bhutan Army personnel intensely engaged in the fight against the Northeast rebels since December 15, were trained by India’s paramilitary force — Assam Rifles.
		Bhutan, too, has similar geographical terrain and dense forests where the Royal Bhutan Army have not realised that the Northeast rebels are likely to relocate their bases.
		Bhutan is believed to have captured 30 camps run by the three rebel groups — 13 camps of United Liberation Front of Ason, 12 of National Democratic Front of Boroland and five of Kamtapur Liberation Organisation.
	www.kantipuronline.com /kolnews.php?&nid=4908 (729 words)

	Bhutan Army smashes 19 Indian insurgent camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Royal Bhutan Army had smashed 19 of the 30 well fortified insurgent camps located in the dense jungles of the land-locked kingdom, a senior government official in Thimphu told PTI by phone.
		The army action spread from Dhangtar in Samdrup Jongkhar district, where offensives were concentrated to Nganglam area in southen Bhutan, Sarpang district in west Bhutan and beyond Samtse, he said.
		G-O-C in C of the Indian Army's Eastern Command in Kolkata had said 90 to 120 militants were killed in the anti-insurgent operations, while reports from Assam said over 35 Royal Bhutan Army personnel were killed in the combat.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/dec/19bhutan.htm (182 words)

	The Hindu : Bhutan cracks down on anti-India militants
		The Royal Bhutan Army today launched a crackdown on anti-India militants camping on its soil for the last 12 years, the External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, and the Bhutanese Embassy said here separately.
		Bhutan, he said, was a sovereign nation and had undertaken this action on its own.
		The Bhutan Embassy said the Army had been asked to remove militant elements after six years of consistent and strenuous efforts to find a peaceful solution to the problem had failed and the process of "peaceful dialogue" fully exhausted.
	www.hindu.com /2003/12/16/stories/2003121606380100.htm (658 words)

	CRACKDOWN IN BHUTAN
		According to the Bhutan government, the military operations are an all-Bhutan affair, with King Jigme Singye Wangchuk himself leading his troops from the front.
		However, even without Bhutan's compulsions to be sensitive and responsive to Indian concerns in this regard, what perhaps outraged the authorities in Bhutan as it appears from the Bhutan Foreign Ministry statement, was the brazen assumption of the separatist leaders that their organisations were there as a matter of right.
		The sentiments expressed in the statement issued by the Bhutan Foreign Ministry to explain the launching of the military operations are unexceptionable, except for a tiny bit of reservation.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2101/stories/20040116006400400.htm (2472 words)

	Statement by the Foreign Ministry of Bhutan on the commencement of military operations to flush out from its soil three ...
		The three separatist groups are scattered across southern Bhutan bordering Arunachal Pradesh in the east to Sikkim in the west, thereby covering the entire stretch of Bhutan’s southern boundary with India.
		It is ironic that Bhutan’s success with environmental conservation, in particular, conservation of the dense sub-tropical forests along the southern border, has rendered the country a favoured hiding place for the separatist elements from India.
		The predicament for Bhutan is that of a country feeling the life threatening pains of a problem that lies everywhere.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/bhutan/document/papers/stat_15dec03.htm (1175 words)

	Bhutan army netting rebels on run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		All the 30 camps of the northeast insurgent outfits have been destroyed and the army is conducting mopping up operations in jungles, which cover 72 per cent of the kingdom.
		The movement of the sellers of the famed Bhutan oranges from the nearby hills was restricted since the beginning of the RBA action as the militants were using fruit baskets for smuggling in their arms and ammunition, sources said.
		The destruction of ULFA's general headquarters and command headquarters in Bhutan is considered to have given a very major blow to the outfit, apart from that caused by the death and surrender of its senior leaders.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/dec/26bhut.htm (462 words)

	BORR Terrorism News: A Militia Against Terror
		Bhutan is raising a militia force, a move that was proposed by more than 200 leaders of development committees of the districts and blocks, who met with King Jigme Singye Wangchuck on May 14 in the capital, Thimpu.
		At this month's meeting, in the presence of the King, a senior army officer asked the rural leaders to select the most capable men between the ages of 18 and 45 to be given a three-month training course by the Royal Bhutan Army.
		If Bhutan is forced to resort to military action to remove the militants, the Government estimates that more than 66,000 people in 10 districts will be affected, and possibly displaced.
	www.borrull.org /e/noticia.php?id=17980 (1020 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		As the Bhutan operation entered the 10th day today, the Indian Army is all set to expand their role from sealing the Indo-Bhutan border to concentrate on the Indo-Bangladesh boundary, where the fleeing militants were likely to move.
		Meanwhile, the Royal Bhutan Army resumed its mopping up operation of the militant camps in the kingdom since yesterday as sounds of sharp firing could be heard from the bordering town.
		Bhutan yesterday confirmed reports that wives and children of militants were being lodged in safe houses inside the kingdom without specifying their numbers.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031225/main4.htm (1189 words)

	Military Offensive Against United Liberation Front of Assam
		The government of Bhutan unleashed a reign of terror against the movement and those suspected of supporting the movement were deprived of their citizenship and thrown out of the country.
		Bhutan took the stand that if its army took any action which might have resulted in the casualty of a single militant then they would have been blamed for killing an Indian citizen and as a reaction our people living in Assam would have been targeted.
		Bhutan is quite confident that, as remarked by a Bhutanese intellectual Rakesh Chhetri, ‘the Indian government will certainly reward Bhutan and this reward is turning blind eye to the refugees’ hope of returning to their homeland’.
	www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv10n1/assam.htm (1871 words)

	The Hindu : Bhutan Army captures top militants
		The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) achieved major successes today in its operations against the north-eastern militants in India camping in Bhutan when it captured a dozen top men of the outfits.
		The RBA also destroyed 30 well-fortified camps of the ultras at Deothan and adjoining places in Bhutan.
		The Army remains on the alert along the border with Bhutan.
	www.hindu.com /2003/12/18/stories/2003121806070100.htm (503 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		Although the Royal Bhutan Army was trained by India under a treaty signed in 1948 that permits India to help the country in the areas of foreign policy and defense, it has never been baptized in the blood of war.
		Bhutan maintained strict neutrality during the India-China War of 1962 and, to the annoyance of many in India, disarmed fleeing Indian army personnel who entered its territory.
		As the Indian army sealed the border and the Royal Bhutan Army continued its pressure, however, it appeared that India was far from a solution to the insurgency in the northeast, as some of the senior leaders are believed by intelligence sources to have slipped into Bangladesh or Nepal.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EL19Df04.html (1060 words)

	The Assam Tribune online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		She said the Bhutanese army was facing resistance from the insurgents operating from hideouts in dense forests.
		The Royal Bhutan Army headquarters has reported that the flushing out operations against the militants are continuing.
		Earlier, the National Assembly of Bhutan had passed resolutions that if exhaustive peaceful efforts brought no results then the Royal Bhutan Army would have to be given the responsibility of removing them from the country.
	www.assamtribune.com /dec1703/at01.html (520 words)

	India-Bhutan Joint Army Expedition
		The India-Bhutan Joint Army Expedition was conceived, planned and successfully executed by Col Rajesh Anand, Commanding Officer 16 Jat.
		The expedition was unique in the sense that it was for the first time that the Indian Army and the Royal Bhutan Army jointly undertook a multi-disciplinary expedition.
		The expedition commenced at Dukye Dzong (Bhutan) and successfully culminated at Fort William, Calcutta.
	mod.nic.in /samachar/15aug2000/html/ch15.htm (196 words)

	The Assam Tribune online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Sources revealed that in the last meeting held between the Bhutan Government and the ULFA on November 22 and 23, the militant outfit was represented by Sasha Choudhury, Asanta Baghphukan and Bhimkanta Buragohain.
		The Bhutan Government also asked the ULFA representatives to send the Commander in Chief Paresh Baruah and Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa for talks, but they never came and the ULFA also did not take any step to move their cadres and camps from Bhutan, forcing the Government of the Hilayan Kingdom to launch the offensive.
		The Ambassador of Bhutan, Lyonpo Dago Tshering has also clarified that the Prince was one of the militia amongst hundreds of men and women who have volunteered as militia.
	www.assamtribune.com /dec2203/at01.html (1016 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The Indian Army joining hands with the Royal Bhutan Army for the final phase of the operation is also likely to be considered by the Cabinet Committee on Security when it meets next.
		Sources said Bhutan was more willing for the operation as the militants were also posing to be a threat for the monarchy there.
		Bhutan today rejected a ceasefire call by ULFA and vowed to go ahead with the ongoing “short but decisive” military operation till the end result of flushing the Indian insurgents out of its soil was achieved.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031219/main6.htm (715 words)

	Bhutan
		Bhutan is ruled by a hereditary monarch, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, who governs with the support of a National Assembly, a Cabinet, a Council of Ministers (the Royal Advisory Council), and the Monastic Body, a 5,000-member body that is headed by four representatives with the consent of the King.
		Pulami reportedly was a member of the Youth Organization of Bhutan (the youth wing of the banned Bhutan People's Party) and had gone to the country to check on the internal resettlement of non-Nepalese to the south.
		The Drukpa branch of Buddhism enjoyed statutory representation in the National Assembly (Drukpa monks occupy 10 seats in the 150-member National Assembly) and in the Royal Advisory Council (Drukpa monks hold 2 of the 11 seats on the Council); the Drukpa branch was an influential voice on public policy.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18310.htm (7841 words)

	Bhutan
		King Jigme Singye Wangchuck governs with the support of a National Assembly, a Cabinet, a Council of Ministers (the Royal Advisory Council), and the Monastic Body, a 3,500-member body that is headed by 4 representatives with the consent of the King.
		The Royal Bhutan Police, assisted by the Royal Bhutan Army (including those assigned to the Royal Body Guard), and a national militia maintain internal security.
		In May, the Royal Bhutan University opened in Thimphu and was comprised of 10 colleges.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27945.htm (6056 words)

	BHARAT RAKSHAK MONITOR - Volume 6(4) January February 2004
		The late realisation of Bhutan of the difficulty posed by the militants’ presence was summed up by the country’s prime minister, in his speech at the SAARC summit in Islamabad.
		The annihilation it faced in Bhutan is till not enough to force the outfit to opt for a negotiated way of settlement of the dispute.
		However, as questions were raised about the missing cadres after the operations, the Indian Army General N C Vij said, in Guwahati, on January 2, that as per the assessment of the Indian Army there were about 1500 militants belonging to the three outfits taking shelter in Bhutan before the RBA operation was launched.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /MONITOR/ISSUE6-4/routray.html (4121 words)

	Northeast terrorists call for strike
		The United Liberation Front of Asom, National Democratic Front of Bodoland and Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, under attack from the Royal Bhutan Army, have jointly called a 48-hour strike in Assam and parts of north Bengal from Saturday to protest against the killing of ULFA political advisor Bhimakanta Buragohain.
		In emails to media outlets in Guwahati, the three outfits said the Bhutan army launched its December 15 operation "without any clear ultimatum".
		"The joint forces of Indian and Royal Bhutan Army are brutally killing old people, women and children," the joint statement alleged.
	in.rediff.com /news/2003/dec/19bhutan3.htm (248 words)

	Bhutan Army suspends Operation All Clear - Sify.com
		The RBA for the first time launched its cleansing operation against three groups-ULFA, NDFB and KLO- and successfully demolished an estimated 30 armed camps in south Bhutan.
		Sources said although the RBA almost destroyed all the 30-odd camps in south Bhutan, many ultras fled to upper hills and many fled into Bangladesh before the operation began.
		The Bhutan Home Ministry in a communique refuted press and electronic media reports that King Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his son Prince Jigyel Wangchuck had been leading the RBA from the front.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13342761 (390 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The women and children were brought to Tamulpur in two buses from Samdrup Jongkhar, where the Royal Bhutan Army had kept them since December 15.
		Though both Bhutan and India have been saying that women and children captured in the Himalayan kingdom are being treated well, Ulfa chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said in a statement that the seven-year-old son of militant Rahul Dutta was killed in the “joint offensive by the Royal Bhutan Army and the Indian army”.
		Criticising the chief ministers of Assam and Bengal for backing Bhutan’s offensive and treating militants as “misguided youths”, he said Tarun Gogoi’s offer of general amnesty to those who surrender before January 31 was unacceptable.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031225/asp/nation/story_2717286.asp (405 words)

	Asia Times
		New Delhi consequently had some reasons for satisfaction when Bhutan’s National Assembly once again deliberated on the presence of the Indian militants in the kingdom during its session earlier this month and reiterated its call to the rebels to pull out from the kingdom in a peaceful manner or face physical eviction through military force.
		It is not clear whether the Royal Bhutan Police and the Royal Bhutan Army, despite the presence of some commando units trained by the Indian security establishment, can take on the trained ULFA rebels.
		In a telephone interview with the author, Bhutan Foreign Secretary Ugyen Tshering stated that the ULFA leadership had told the Bhutanese authorities that they could not fulfil their commitment to withdraw from the kingdom because of the increased presence of Indian troops on the Indo-Bhutan border in the Assam sector.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/DH08Df01.html (1310 words)

	Bhutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bhutan is a Buddhist state where power is shared by the king and government.
		Based on the on-line book entitled "The Origin and Description of the National Flag and Anthem of the Kingdom of Bhutan", the first version of the national flag appeared during the signing of the Indo-Bhutan Treaty of 1949.
		On page 70 of Pedersen (1970) is the Bhutan state flag, diagonally halved with upper hoist gold and lower fly brownish.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/bt.html (1119 words)

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