"I jumped into the war to pay the debt, I ran away after being killed by my colleagues"

In Dhangadhi BBA studying season in Marma area of ​​Darchula, the worry and study of the father who is drowning in debt while contracting the water supply project The problem of expenses was piling at once .

When he found out that there was a process of enlisting in the Russian army through brokers from rural areas, he believed in the rumor that red passports were also given to family members with attractive salaries, good service facilities and family members. Singh was accompanied by 4 Nepalis when he flew from Kathmandu to Dubai on August 1. There were 11 people in his group when he flew from Dubai to Moscow.

The day after arriving in Moscow, he was recruited into the Russian army after a general health examination. There were 150 Nepalese in the battalion he was recruited. Season told, "On the second day morning, uniforms and weapons were given, they were taught how to open weapons and use lightly while wearing uniforms." According to him, during the training, the commanders used to torture them by hitting them with sticks and gun butts. After almost 2 weeks of training, he reached the battlefield Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

When he arrived there was a double crowd. "We never knew where bombs, shells and ammunition would come from," he said. Food was thrown to them from helicopters on the battlefield. It would get stuck in a tree, fall in a difficult place and be uncatchable. Sometimes they starved. Nepalis were sent to the front line and the Russian army used to stay behind. "There are also cases where the Russian army shot and killed the Nepalese from behind when they refused to leave," he said.

He also said that 5 Nepalis who were in another battalion in Luhansk were shot dead when the Russian army tried to send them forward when they tried to send them forward. At that time, 1 person escaped and lost his life. After seeing all the tragedies of the war, he felt that he should run away to save his life. There was no hope that Singh would be able to return home while fighting the war with the Ukrainian army. But he hoped that even if he died, it would be easy for his family.

The family heard that they will get a red passport and one and a half crore relief will be given to the martyr family. But when the Russian army started killing his friend who was fighting with him, he did not accept it. 'After being threatened by my own colleagues, I thought how to fight, I should run away,' says Singh, 'then 3 of us ran away from there and reached the air force battalion. -break He said that he contacted a broker in Moscow and paid 1.5 million and returned home via Delhi.

Before taking him to Russia, the broker told him that he would get a monthly salary of 4/5 lakh. But after joining the Russian army, he received only 195,000 in the first month and 207,000 in the second month. He says that others who were involved in the war have not received their salary for the last three months. Even though the fear that he will die after reaching Nepal by paying 2.5 million to the broker is gone, the season is still haunted by a debt of nearly 10 million during this journey. "I survived, but the debt was added to the debt," he said.

Zhenten, who came to Nepal after saving his life, has not left the painful memories and horror of the war. Whether walking during the day or sleeping at night, he is terrified . "When there is a loud noise, it feels as if a bomb has been thrown from somewhere," said Singh, who arrived home via Delhi on Friday morning.