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non- ◴[] No.42173412[source]
If you don't get past the headline you might miss the most interesting part of this story. Bhutan is building a special economic-zone city, based on Singapore as a model, and designed by Bjarke Ingels. The renders are really striking, many of the major and most important buildings are designed to double as bridges over the river. Skip to 16:52 in the video to see the renders of the planned development "Gelephu Mindfulness City".
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wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB ◴[] No.42174465[source]
how about renaming it to Lhotshampa hatefulness city ?
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1. tdeck ◴[] No.42174947[source]
In case anyone wondered this is referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_in_Bhutan
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2. mark000 ◴[] No.42175713[source]
This is an interesting thread related to the subject

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gisa55/why_d...

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3. amritananda ◴[] No.42176396[source]
IMO also a good exploration of the ethnic cleansing of Lhotsampa and the subsequent hardships faced by the refugees is The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan, edited by Venkat Pulla.