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Feb 2017

20m 10s

Episode 3: Stop Calling Bhutan "Shangri-...

About this episode

In episode three, Melissa explains the connection between a fire, sacrilegious vandalism, and ethnic cleansing in Bhutan.

TW: Genocide, death by fire

SOURCES (BETTER LOOKING SOURCES FORTHCOMING):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIcuV1ajOc

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2003/jun/14/weekend7.weekend2

http://bhutanobserver.bt/6633-bo-news-about-dish_tv_to_see_or_not_to_see.aspx

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bhutan/interview.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/14/bhutan.cable/

http://pierrejoubert.blogspot.com/2005/02/teenagers-and-crime-and-bhutan.html

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/1325256.pdf

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/1323112.pdf

http://www.bbs.bt/news/?p=11968

http://www.kuenselonline.com/five-chorten-vandals-appeal-to-high-court/

http://www.kuenselonline.com/five-choetens-vandalized-in-one-day/

http://www.kuenselonline.com/life-imprisonment-for-two-seven-years-for-another-duo/

http://www.kuenselonline.com/court-sentence-man-to-14-lifetime-imprisonment/

http://www.kuenselonline.com/using-tech-to-protect-choetens/

http://www.kuenselonline.com/fighting-choeten-vandalism/

http://www.bbs.bt/news/?p=48773

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_xQ-CgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT97&dq=television+bhutan&ots=FQBU_wVZA1&sig=MNzTkaWQ8kjLXVsBazVkkxI-f58#v=onepage&q=television%20bhutan&f=false

http://archives.icom.museum/disaster_preparedness_book/country/dargye.pdf

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054284,00.html

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