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They were coming to arrest his father.
Deepesh Subedi, only 5 at the time, helped his family quickly pack a few essentials before the soldiers arrived. It didnât matter that his father was a quiet farmer, with no interest in politics. It didnât matter that the Subedi family had lived in Bhutan â a small country on the edge of the Himalayas â as legal citizens for several generations. All that mattered to the soldiers, marching up the slopes with their guns, was that the family had immigrated from Nepal several generations earlier.
Men were coming to arrest his father â possibly his entire family.