It was past midnight, the 22nd of November 1990. I was sleeping with my children at home. Suddenly, I was woken up by the sound of banging on my door. When I opened the door, I was chilled to see my husband, Hom Nath Gautam and step son, Deo Dutta Gautam in handcuffs arrested by Major Chachu, accompanied by a dozen policemen. They were arrested from our own cattle farm, located at a distance from home, where they were sleeping for the night. Major Chachu said that my husband and son were being taken for questioning to the police station and would be sent back home the next day. (Pabitra Gautam, www.bhutannewsservice.com)
Some stories carry pain and some happiness. Some are based on reality, but sligthly tilted towards fiction. Some are very interestingly presented and it is real. The words and sentences in such real stories are very painful if it is tragic and very happy to read at if it is comic or humourous. In reality, the words and phrases comes out if one suppresses others very badly. People present those real sufferings and henceforth, it reveals truth.
The lines I have quoted in the top of my post is real story based on the suppression of one of the Nepali speaking Bhutanese in Southern Bhutan in 1990s. I was unknown about those facts going on inside Bhutan as I was only a child of 4 years while I was evicted from the country 'Bhutan'. However, the true facts cannot be hidden and it will be very powerful. When I go through the lines of that true story, i felt sad and it was tragic. This is kind of situation where the Govt. doesnot allow people to speak freely and hold its complete power. And, ultimately it results to movement and revolution and also violence and series of arrests, terrible tortures and also death. In that period, innocent and general people suffered a lot and they can't stay long with that and left the country and that is eviction. That is what I know after I heard from elders and also general Bhutanese people and also by doing research on that issue.
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