tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724939870312341546.post1147324095439299013..comments2023-11-05T21:03:21.895+09:00Comments on The Story of Bhutanese Refugees: 5 reasons why not to believe Michael HuttPelden Drukpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868206336405190387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724939870312341546.post-65148089166839267132010-07-22T12:58:00.256+09:002010-07-22T12:58:00.256+09:00testtestpeldendrukpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02747225352095142065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724939870312341546.post-47784484461937130112010-07-22T12:57:32.677+09:002010-07-22T12:57:32.677+09:00Comment by TheReveler from bhutantimes.com forum
D...Comment by TheReveler from bhutantimes.com forum<br />Dear Kunlong,<br /><br />Let me assure you that there is no need for any of us to loose our sleep over this lame duck professor who, without ever having set foot on Bhutan, brazenly calls himself an expert on the country and its history. When someone claims expertise over a country, it is generally understood that the person would have lived in the country of his expertise for many years and interacted with the people intimately. He is expected to have travelled the length and the breadth of the country, observed and understood the country’s geopolitical realities. He is expected to understand and be mindful of the peoples’ concerns and trepidations arising out of the country’s fragile ecosystem, tensions and disharmony caused by the multiplicity of religious practices and social customs and habits and the dangers posed by demographic imbalance.<br /><br />A balanced and educated writer worth his salt would assimilate all these information and knowledge, first hand, before he embarks on a work that he hopes will qualify as something credible and of substance and that which is worthy of attention and admiration from the intelligentsia. No such thing is true of our lame duck Professor Michael Hutt and his publications relating to Bhutan, a country about which he has no understanding at all. None of his writings are based on his personal hands-on experience or understanding of the real issues. All his writings were gleaned from the internet and world wide discussion forums and, that is why, some of the factual inaccuracies reported by him are so glaring and preposterous that any writer would cringe in shame that he has been party to the perpetration of such blatant falsehood.<br /><br />The professor’s knowledge on Bhutan is so dismal that if someone in London were to ask him where Thimphu was, he will in all probability tell the person that Thimphu is in Tsirang Dzongkhag. And the goat claims he is an expert on Bhutan! There is a term in the English language that aptly describes a pretender like Professor Michael Hutt - the term is known as: S~H~A~M~M~E~R.<br /><br />The idiot professor is not even aware that Bhutan issued its first postage stamp in 1962 and that there were no licencing system prevailing then. I think licencing was introduced sometime towards the later part of 60’s or early 70’s. So what is he talking of when he writes that “Their numbers were augmented by later migrants, who continued to be brought in by licensed contractors until about 1930”. What he is implying is that there were licenced labor contractors pre-1930. As far as I know, the Royal Government of Bhutan started to issue licences to “Labor Contractors” about ten years back. Before that, “Sadars” or “Baidars” used to bring in the laborers.<br /><br />He further quotes the statistical figures quoted by the Dutch linguist George van Driem to mislead the readers into believing that the Lhotsampa population was superior to those of the Sharchops. He conveniently forgets to explain that George van Driem’s numbers were for the purpose of segregating the country’s population based on linguistic lines and did not represent regional head count.<br /><br />From all the above, it is clear that our goatee-less goat is not only not competent to write authoritatively on Bhutan, he also distorts facts to present a poor picture of us. Fortunately, not all those who read is rambling are fools - they have sense enough to cross-check the validity of what he writes. And they know that he writes rubbish.<br /><br />Seriously, someone should tell the people at University of London to de-classify Professor Michael Hutt as an expert on Bhutan. He does not qualify as one. Has he ever been to Bhutan? What kind of expert do you call that???????<br /><br />So, fellow Bhutanese, do not worry about him and his cheap shots at Bhutan - he is nothing more than that famous UN Yak expert :)peldendrukpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02747225352095142065noreply@blogger.com