Bhutan, the land of thunder dragon, the last shangrila, the GNH country, the land of peace, the land of smile, etc., is how people around the world talk about or know about Bhutan. It Is indeed a country loved and respected for culture and environment, and Bhutan is beyond doubt a peaceful country with peace loving people.The white dragon in the flag signifies the purity of people and peacefulness of the country.
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Being a true Bhutanese, if we question about our own country and her relation with peace, Bhutanese indeed fails to co-exist with GNH values of our country. I am not generalizing here. I feel that frequent incidences of such activities are occurring due to the bunch of ignorant, greedy, self centered and un-employed people, whose existence cannot be avoided. Another reason would be the negative influences made by some television programs which convey ambiguous meanings especially to our younger generations accelerated by current employment crises of the country. Only if Bhutanese could change mind-set of segregating the so called blue collar and white collar jobs. If such change can be observed, we would have our younger generations interested in taking various jobs replacing thousands of expatriates. Such change is mind-set would be able to employ our younger generations, which in turn would provide income, which is proportionate to the rate of crime (just my thoughts, no research done).
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As to the question of "Is Bhutan really a peaceful and safe country?"...i still think it is...the recent news of rapes, murder, etc..i think it has been happening occasionally in the past too. however these days thanks to medias all this actions are brought to the attention of general public, which is a good thing and it might help to minimise such issues..well i certainly hope so.
Having said that, we should however question such acts and change in a better direction..just like you mentioned..
I guess you right in stating that "i think it has been happening occasionally in the past too. however these days thanks to medias all this actions are brought to the attention of general public". If we think in the similar ground, even the current burning Human Wildlife Conflict may also be the same thing.
as for the Human Wildlife conflict, i was reading an journal article written by our famous 'Tiger Sangay' about it and i was thinking that such conflicts may have been happening for long time, even before the conservation efforts began, i mean it is evident from the architecture design of our farm houses..just my thoughts.
Tiger Sangay and I work in the same office.
I think you are right about Human Wildlife Conflict.