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| Jigme Singye Wangchuck འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ | |
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 Wangchuck in 2008 | |
| King of Bhutan | |
| Reign | 24 July 1972 – 9 December 2006 |
| Coronation | 2 June 1974 |
| Predecessor | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck |
| Successor | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck |
| Born | 11 November 1955 Dechencholing Palace, Thimphu, Bhutan |
| Spouse | 1st consort: Dorji Wangmo 2nd consort: Tshering Pem 3rd consort: Tshering Yangdon 4th consort: Sangay Choden |
| Issue | Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Sonam Dechen Wangchuck Dechen Yangzom Wangchuck Kesang Choden Wangchuck Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck Khamsum Singye Wangchuck Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Euphelma Choden Wangchuck Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck |
| House | Wangchuck |
| Father | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck |
| Mother | Kesang Choden |
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Bhutanese royal family |
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Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med seng ge dbang phyug;[1] born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in 2006.
Under Wangchuk's reign, ethnic cleansing in Bhutan was initiated wherein in 1996 about 100,000 Lhotshampa people were stripped of their citizenship and expelled by the military out of Bhutan.[2][3][4][5] During his reign, he advocated the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure the well-being of citizens rather than Gross domestic product.[6]
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- ^ "Early life of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck". Bhutan Department of Information Technology. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
- ^ "Bhutan's forgotten people". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Douglas, Ed (20 April 2008). "Refugees warn of Bhutan's new tide of ethnic expulsions". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Bhutan's Dark Secret: The Lhotshampa Expulsion". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "The ethnic cleansing hidden behind Bhutan's happy face". Firstpost. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Gross National Happiness