Despite an offer by the US and other western countries to provide a new home to Bhutanese refugees, many of who want to go back, UN’s top envoy for refugees is going to Bhutan Thursday to broach the repatriation issue afresh. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, who has visited India and Nepal, the other two key players in the 16-year tragedy, will seek to thaw an obdurate Bhutan that has steadfastly refused to take back the nearly 106,000 people of Nepali origin it forced to flee their homes in the 1990s. Full Story