Dragonland's Aryan Restoration Troops (D.A.R.T) is a website that claims to belong to a militant Bhutanese organization that "uses direct action in the form of guerrilla operations, covert activities, and economic sabotage", in order "oppose the destruction of the traditional Bhutanese culture and society, dharmic values, holistic way of life, and environment." Their ultimate stated goal is the deposing of current Bhutanese monarchy and the "restoration of the traditionally sanctified Shabdrung system and theocracy, formation of the instruments of National Socialist democracy and providing a means for establishing a government of order, hierarchy, autarchy, radical environmentalism and spiritual vitality." The website claims that the organization "functions as an underground network of fighting groups and individual activists operating in Bhutan and abroad" and that they "have supporters and informants in every group of Bhutanese society: government, Buddhist clergy, public service, military, law enforcement etc."[http://www.geocities.com/mahabala_awake/index.html#orientations
The website's ideology comes primarily from a Traditionalist point of view, but the site also states that it sympathetic to National Socialism, radical environmentalism, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Globalization. It contains links to essays by a diverse assortment of writers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, Rene Guenon, Savitri Devi Mukherji, Bill White, Sun-Tzu, Che Guevara, Mao Tse-Tung, Theodore Kaczynski and Miyamoto Musashi, among others.
The site states that its "Patron Avatar" is the Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg, and that he was declared a Mahakala incarnation by the Dalai Lama XII.
As of now, no external evidence of the group's existence beyond the website has been found, though a page on their website contains a number of quotes acknowledging their existence attributed to the Anti-Defamation League, the Terrorism Research Center, the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, and others.
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