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The Communist insurgency in Bhutan is an armed conflict between the Bhutanese government and the Communists.

Background
In the 1980s the then-King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to have a "one nation, one people" policy in Bhutan. This resulted in strip and deport most of the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese (also known as the Lhotshampans) lost their Bhutanese citizenship. Human rights groups claimed that the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) committed beatings, torture and murder against the Lhotshampans.

In the late 1980s, over 105,000 Lhotshampans have been forced out of Bhutan in a mass expulsion, in the 1990s, the Lhotshampa people protested against the Bhutanese Government for democratisation and language reforms. The government forcibly evicted the protesters, where they were put into refugee camps in eastern Nepal. Those who stayed have faced widespread discrimination in the country. Inside the refugee camps, insurgent groups have sprung up, including the Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) (CPB (MLM)). The CPB (MLM) was formed on 22 April 2003, as announced on the website of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

Conflict
On 25 April 2007 the RBA defused a bomb planted by the CPB (MLM) in the Phuentsholing village, close to the Indian border. On 16 January 2008 RBA found a camp in the Tsirang District after the militants escaped the camp. Four bombs did explode on 20 January at four different locations three were in the south-western part of the country and one in the capital, Thimphu. One woman was injured, and the rebel group United Revolutionary Front of Bhutan (URFB) claimed the attack. In the Samtse District February 2008 a series of bomb attacks exploded, no one was killed or injured in the attacks. During the transition to constitutional monarchy in 2008, the Maoists rocked Bhutan on 12 March with five explosions across the country, including one in the capital Thimphu. They also declared the beginning of the 'People's War'. On 20 March 2008 a twin bomb attacks exploded on a police station in Sibsoo south-western Bhutan. This was four days before the first Bhutanese general election was held. A twin attacks of bombs in Chukha exploded on 5 June, one near the Damchen Petroleum depot and another near a school. The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) found on 10 August a bomb. It prevented the bomb blast by detecting a storey building in Phuntsholing. On 30 December a blast in the Sarpang District near the Singay village exploded, four of which were killed and two others were injured.