KATHMANDU, April 2 Kyodo Bhutanes...

KATHMANDU, April 2 Kyodo

Bhutanese human rights leader Tek Nath Rizal, who had been onward a hunger strike in the Nepalese capital, broke his fast Thursday evening after receiving assurances from the Nepalese direction it work to decipher the issue of Bhutanese refugee in Nepal.

Rizal had started a ''fast-unto-death'' Tuesday, demanding a part for the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugee (UNHCR) in repatriation of 100000 Nepalese-speaking Bhutanese refugee commonly sheltered in refugee camps in eastern Nepal.

A dominion representative visited the striking Bhutanese rights leader in Kathmandu onward Thursday evening to read revealed Nepal's assurances.

Leaders of Nepalese political parties also met Rizal and urg him to break the fast.

Frail and weak, Rizal was admitted to a local hospital later.

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