MY Story

The small country Bhutan is surrounded by India and China. Constitutional monarch is the head of the country. Gigme Nygmgel is the first monarch to rule the country and is followed by the Wanchuck dynasty to rule the country. It is believed that a small group of people came from Tibet and started living in the country at first and some people from Nepal were taken at the beginning. The country is in the process of developing. People use simple and traditional tools for farming, they also rare cattle. There was a batter system at the beginning. The national language spoken is Dzongkha but there are people speaking Nepali too. Nepali speaking people live in the southern belt of Bhutan. The southern part of Bhutan is fertile and is good for the cultivation of crops. People grow food crops and cash crops and they also produce cardamom and exports to other countries like India. 

      It was around 1990, government of Bhutan forced people to speak the national language Dzongkha instead of other languages. people in the southern belt use to speak Nepali and they could not speak

Dzongkha. Not only that people were asked to put a national dress and were forced to follow their rules. As a result, many southern Bhutanese were forcibly evicted from their motherland. Eighty thousand southern Nepali speaking people came to Nepal. All these people were assisted by UNHCR in Nepal. My family is among all those people who lived in the Eastern part of Nepal. All these people lived an exiled life as a refugee. People who has spent life being refugee can easily describe how hard the life is sustained. 

     There were hungry mouths searching for food, helpless hands asking for help, angry faces struggling from all corners for anything in anything. People struggle a lot just to survive and just for the basic needs such as shelter, education, clothing, food and water. All Bhutanese lived in a small hut made up off bamboo and thatch and plastics' all depended on the food provided by United Nation high commission for refugee. Whatever they get from UNHCR for living was not sufficient to live .life was tough though there was no any other alternatives rather than eat and live in refugee camp. As I along with my family grew up in the refugee camp, I went to school in the refugee camp. CARITAS NEPAL provided us with education. Children studied in the refugee camp up to grade X .I was one of the kids among all the refugee who finished grade X and studied further more outside the camp. After living for more than seventeen years in refugee camp, people were provided opportunities to go and live in developed countries like USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, Netherlands and  Newzerland. Many refugees were resettled in all these countries and struggled a lot to make their life better. Today most of the Bhutanese who resisted in these developed countries learnt a lot about the culture and diversity of the country they were resettled. They also learnt how to adjust with the Society of that country. They also learnt how to work, drive and make money and be self-depended on themselves.