Acharya and his family were evicted from Bhutan in 1992 in a wave of what he calls ethnic cleansing that rendered one-sixth of the Bhutanese population refugees. According to him, eight rounds of bilateral talks between Nepal and Bhutan on the issue of refugees have not yielded any tangible solution and meanwhile the Bhutanese government has been settling people from other communities in the lands that became vacant after the eviction of the southern Bhutanese. Acharya addressed a small group of people at the United Methodist Church outside the United Nations on March 6 and students at Columbia University on March 8, among other addresses. He was to is go to Berkeley, California, on a lecture tour after March 14 when the first phase of the campaign ends in New York area. Jennifer Kloes, executive director of GYC, said that although Bhutan is not embroiled in any bloody conflict, there could be no real peace as long as a substantial part of its population lives in exile.
Peace means coexistence and tolerance, both in the natural and human environment.