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Bhutanese Medals & DEcorations

2008-07-07T11:12:12Z

I wonder if there is anyone out there who has an interest in and knowledge of Bhutan’s system of honours, awards and medals?

Information is difficult to come by, so the following is all I have been able to find so far:

The Royal Order of Bhutan: founded by King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk in 1966. Awarded in three classes and one medal.
Druk Wangyel (Great Victory of the Thunder Dragon): instituted by King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in 1985 as the country’s highest national award (postnominal=DWG).
Druk Yuelgyel (Victory of the Thunder Dragon): the highest military medal of honour awarded for outstanding dedication, loyalty and commitment (postnominal=DYG).
Druk Thuksey (Son of the Heart of the Thunder Dragon): instituted by King Jigme Singye Wangchuck on 2nd June 1999 as the highest individual civilian decoration and awarded for outstanding services to “Tsa-Wa-Sum”, the king, country and the people.
Drakpoi Wangyel: medal of honour awarded to members of the Royal Bhutan Army and the Royal Bhutan Police (post nominal=DW).
Drakpoi Thuksey: a meritorious service medal awarded to members of the Royal Bhutan Army, Royal Bodyguard, National Militia, Royal Bhutan Police, and Forest Guards and the uniformed civilian services to reward services to maintaining national security (post nominal=DT).
Drakpoi Khorlo: a meritorious service medal awarded to members of the Royal Bhutan Police and to reward services to maintaining law and order (post nominal=DK).

If there is anyone who can provide more detailed information as to the exact names, translation into English, conditions for award, classes, etc, I would welcome hearing from you at the following e-mail address:
susuhanan at hotmail dot co dot uk

With sincere thanks and best wishes,
C J Buyers

Thank you RGOB

2007-11-15T22:06:29Z

Living in refugee camps didn’t bothered me coz all knew was only refugee camp. Barefoot and nakedness didn’t affect me coz I don’t know how it feels to be with shoes and clothes. Hunger has nothing to do me coz I have been eating stinking rice my whole life. Taste of sitting on bench in school, I have not even dreamed of it. But my gratitudes to RGOB that just coz of you now I am going to a country where milk and honey is flowing.

Thank you Bhutan for evicting my parent coz I don’t remember what you did. Although you raped my mom and my aunt I don’t remember. May be my dad is still in Bhutan as high ranking officer. But coz of your barbaric behavior, door like USA has opened for me where I am going with respect and dignity as human being. I am so proud that I don’t have to go back to Bhutan where southerners are treated like slaves.

But I will surely come back to Bhutan not to fight agianst my country but as tourist. I will visit my father’s birth places. May be I will even go and see spot where my mom, my aunty and sisters were raped.
Good luck Bhutan.

Don’t Let Moaist in Bhutan

2008-05-15T01:29:27Z

Hi, I wanted to share some information. Moaist supporter in Refugee camps are forcing ordinary young people to go back to Bhutan. Many of those selfish leaders have already registered for third country resettlement. But they are still brain washing ordnary innocent youth to fight with Bhutan. It is my request that southern Bhutan will not like 1990s again. My prayer is that southerner and northerners live in peace.
We were mislead by wicked leaders who wanted fame for themselve without even thinking about the consequences. We suffered coz of their selfish motives.
Do not let them in Bhutan anymore.

I still love Bhutan.

praise the politicians, whats wrong with me?…………………….

2008-03-19T08:56:26Z

after months of criticizing every one let me begin the praise and prove how fair and equitable, to borrow some words i am and simply walk the talk or talk the walk or whatever

the debates revealed some surprises. the biggest one was sonam tobgay dorji, the madmax of south thimphu. his performance at the debate with yz was unexpected as he spoke loud and clear about his political aims and ambitions. he also managed to answer yz questions and raise his glass for a proverb which no rural person listening to his radio would understand, but he over all would have convinced his rural voters that he is not intimidated or lost as they might have expected. yz could have done better but he must have approached his debate with too much emphasis on being the good guy from the good party thinking people would dislike tobgay dorji anyway. he lost in my opinion and tobgay dorji simply took a big step in th winning direction
the other winner was dr tobgye wangchuck who completely overshadowed the quiet ex minister ut. tobgye made lot of mistakes with his dzongkha (which madmax did not) but he was more vocal and confident
chhundu tshering didnt have much of an opponent but he speaks well and eloquently
i cant remember the others i wanted to praise but i do remember looking closely at the savior of pdp in gelephu tshering dolker and noticed that her eyes if you stare hard enough look like two dpt cranes flying toward each other! amazing

bombs bombs bombs and more bomb news

2008-03-19T05:40:09Z

well now i think that the armed forces have to look into this matter seriously....bombs are being planted frequently and i didnt hear any cuprits being apprenended...what does our readers have to say..

the great defence by sand and stone…………………

2008-03-07T07:11:35Z

UT’s great defence of his donation to the lhakhang in south thimphu is a sadly misguided attempt at clearing his brother’s and his own name. it doesnt get rid of the facts which everyone knows. he should understand that technically and legally the ecb has already let go of his brother and pdp. thank the ecb, your lucky stars, and quietly put in the 200,000 you had set aside for your wife’s weekly cosmetics gift and end the matter. oh no you have to defend your self. they say dont jump around when you find yourself in thick shit. you will only get shittier and spray everyone around you as well as whoever is trying to help.
your defence raises many questions. how did you get a quarry there and no one else. sand and stone is a sensitive issue you are deeply involved in which only recently got resolved. how can you afford millions and millions of donations? how hard is it when you say you worked hard to earn all this? if you can afford to put 200,000 in a small lhakhang prior to your brother seeking nomination, how much did you put directly into your brother’s party? while youre at it can you send a few thousands my way? cant afford the rent here and the taxis are expensive with fuel prices rising!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the moderators of the debates………………….

2008-03-07T07:02:24Z

The moderators:
Did you notice the moderators? Where did the bbs and ecb find these chaps? They might have no jobs if Bhutan didn’t become a democracy! Imagine. They needed a country to change political systems in a way never attempted before, a king to leave the throne and draft a constitution so they could have jobs. Completely unaware of the issues themselves or even the rules of the debate. Sometimes a candidate doesn’t use his wrap-up time to talk about his party. He uses it to accuse the other candidate or party whose turn is finished and has no chance of reply. The moderator should not allow this. And because of the format of the debate we have to listen to the moderator more than the candidates. And as time passes by the moderators are becoming more confident and suddenly taking their chance to hog the limelight. I wont be surprised if villagers begin looking for their photos on the voting machines
This moderator role should have been given to intelligent experienced people who could have corrected false statements as soon as they are made, ensured fair play and also played an additional role of disseminating election information after the debate. Senior people like heads of BBS and Kuensel or to Director CBS. maybe even some civil service directors but to these idiots. idiot box with idiots!............

the great debates………………….

2008-03-07T06:59:43Z

Dear sr. moderator i cannot bring myself to watch the debates let alone cover them for the webstie so sorry. i will limit my views to the two debates which were supposed to be the biggest ones. i was left feeling impotent as if i expected a virgin and found a well travelled lady of the oldest profession instead.

The great debates

The pompous former pm against the spoiled former PM: you take your pick as to who is JYT and who is SN. Is it only me who sees the resemblance of both to actors from Chinese movies. jyt being the kung fu hero’s funny looking weakling sidekick who gets beaten up by the gundas and the hero takes revenge. sn being the comedian who is the butt of everyone’s jokes and prances around while everyone is kung fu fighting. Let me get back to the debate. The debate (as a speaking competition) was won by JYT but the debate as an issues competition was lost by both. in the end we will only remember the namaste they both performed in true south asian politics fashion

The quietly ambitious schemer against the country’s first female engineer: YZ started very well but his joke about obama and Clinton fell flat mainly because he probably hadn’t thought of it himself. He also preferred to skip the issues and focus on the form filling of the pdp. Dorji choden focused on her own experiences with regard to election corruption in answering the question which was probably because she cant defend the actions of some of her colleagues in the pdp namely sn and few others. But it was a good tactic. The sad part about dorji choden doing well was that it showed how badly SN did a week ago. YZ seems to have learnt some of his new boss’ moves when he said as lyonpos he saw absolutely no chance of losing after all they are great achievers. Famous last words?????????

Bring on the ministers’ wives pleasssssssssssssssse ECB why did you disqualify them?

apwangdrugay on the new politicians ……………………

2008-02-28T10:48:09Z

apwangdrugay on the new politicians.....................

When I went to shaba paro to meet a friend the other day
Who did I happen to meet but khandu along the windy way
Hello lyonpo! (Couldn’t possibly have said former lyonpo, no?)
Wai apwangdrugay how are you, we haven’t met for so long, mo?
No la when you were a minister I couldn’t come to see you
Then you began your campaign and I have been very busy too

He smiled and laughed and said a thousand things in that little chatter
So much more than the thousand times I met him as a minister
So how should we use this to our advantage now I contemplate
Parties eager to give everything to the people on a plate

Then I heard their speeches and their proclamations in print and press
They say they will right the wrongs of the past and the policy mess
But did they not have that chance for 10 long years as big ministers?
Fancy cars, wives, RAPA and foreign visits, good examples this
Now with new friends they roam the country with promise after promise
Creepily humble like scalpers smelling dollar bills on tourists

The new parliament of Bhutan will be quite a treat just you see
Gone the flowery language and great oratory in Choekhey
In its place lots of bad Dzongkha and chunks of Indian English too
Rustic and rough image gone but experience and knowledge too
Big talk and egos will fill the large hall of all empty spaces
Minus wisdom culture knowledge and unity of the ages

the electoral process…………………….

2008-02-26T07:12:28Z

here is the great commentator back again
i take back everything i said about the presidents of the parties. i had asked sometime ago that they should send their wives to campaign in short skirts but since thats not happening i am happy to watch the presidents make fools of themselves
the presidential debate between two future PMs was far from presidential. people seem to have enjoyed it if they were DPT supporters and not so much if they were PDP. but in the end people forgot one thing. this is a debate between future PMs in a democracy. and if you take it by that standard the debate we have seen between high school kids on arcane topics were much better.
this one was far from a debate between leaders. sangay ngedup couldnt get over his fear of looking stupid that he really behaved stupidly giggling like a child and not taking the chance to ask questions. jigmi thinley it seems couldnt be more smug that he can speak in public and he just couldnt get over the fact that they have to be addressed as ‘ex lyonpos’. he kept harping on this change in title like a spoiled brat not allowed to do what he wants. you are a former lyonpo no matter whether your ancestors down to yourself worked in the palace or government. accept it gracefully