Oral History from local people

  Oral History from local people You can talk to local Tibetan people about how they arrived in Nepal  and their life since 60 years.  After the formation of communist regime in China, it immediately started taking interest to occupy Tibet and eventually invaded in 1949, making the lives of innocent locals highly unbearable.     So on March 10, 1959, when the Chinese people deliberately crushed their peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and 80,000 Tibetans took refuge in India, Nepal and Bhutan. They traveled days and nights risking their lives while crossing the high Himalayan Ranges, mostly covered in snow, causing frostbite, injuries and untimely deaths.      
 In Pokhara, they had to quickly adapt to new food habits, new cultures, new languages and new climates. This lead to even more deaths. Some even worked as daily wage earners in the constructions of what now is known as the Siddharth Highway in pokhara.
     Today, we have around here 350 in the camp, who have been here for over 60 years as refugees, only with the hope of one day returning back to their country, Tibet.