66-year-old Ram Bahadur Rai spent 31 years and 10 months in Bhutan's prison. After about 32 years, he returned to Beldangi refugee camp in Damak. Rai was released 10 months ago after facing dozens of false cases including treason. He wanted to stay in Bhutan.

However, the Bhutanese government did not give. Instead, he quickly issued a threatening order to leave Bhutan. Jasotso arrived at Beldangi Camp via India. Neither wife nor sons in the camp.

With the help of his eldest daughter and son-in-law, a campaign to resettle him inside the camp began. A small bush was built with the help of various donors. Along with bushes, he also started an aran. Rai's son will run a Dalit aran. Many inquired . However, he was an opponent of the caste system and said, 'This is the profession I want to pursue. The work is not big or small. He who is going to do it. That's what I'm going for. That's why I live.' 

Finally, he spent 70,000 and built Aran. He is now active in the work of making household weapons in Aran, to polishing and making weapons. When an organization called Bhutan People's Party ( BPP ) started a peaceful movement in Bhutan.

A political party in Bhutan sent Rai to Tripura to learn the skills of making weapons including rifles. At that time, the party spent two and a half lakhs and sent me to train in making iron goods. He says, beating the red iron burned in the coal with a cube, "The armed revolution could not happen, but that skill is now giving me a job to support my life."

He is making a living by beating iron in a corner of Beldangi camp. Even now I am hitting the iron, I learned to make guns for the movement, now I beat the pain of my heart with the iron,' he says emotionally.

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In the 1990s, the family of Ram Bahadur Rai of Gelefu Khamaritar was not spared when the then Bhutanese government chased away about one and a half million Nepali speakers.

Beldangi came to the camp as a refugee. However, he was a rebel by nature since he was in Bhutan. He was active in the democratic and human rights movement. In 1994, Dai left his wife and four children in the camp and returned to Bhutan carrying leaflets with political messages.

Arrested while distributing anti-government pamphlets at night in Gelefu. "I was pasting a poster and was arrested by the Bhutanese police," Rai remembered that day, "Then who would have suffered as much torture as I did!" However, the situation sent him to prison, that too for about 32 years . "I have spent more than half of my life in prison," said 66-year-old Rai, "I will spend one day beating him with an iron in the old aran." Due to repeated torture in prison, he has broken two ribs and is physically disabled. The police used to make him stand up and beat him on the leg. The impact of that beating is still there. Legs hurt all night long. Shoes should not be worn', Bhutani says about the hellish life inside the prison, 'There is no disease, but the effects of the torture inside the prison are starting to be seen now.' 

When Rai sees a man wearing a bakkhu, he feels like throwing up. I like to be beaten . Even now, they only like solitude . He prefers to stay alone like in prison . "If I go to the market, I can't hold my mind for a long time", he adds, "why don't I like the crowd at all". However, it was very difficult to come to Nepal. I wanted to stay in Bhutan . However, the Bhutanese administration was ready to keep him! Instead, he had the audacity to rush to India as soon as possible. "When I asked for permission to stay in Bhutan, the administration official did not allow me to stay for even an hour", said Rai, "I was taken to the Bhutan-India border post Jaigaon and left."

It was 12 o'clock in the day when I reached the water tank on the Nepal-India border from Jaigaon. He reached Panitanki with the help of social activist Raju Magar from Jaigaon. Later, eldest daughter Gangamaya Suvva and her son-in-law brought her to Nepal from Panitanki.

The day before he was released from prison, the Bhutan government sent his passport to the Indian government. It was very difficult for Rai to enter Nepal due to the Hulia sent by Bhutan. The Border Security Force (SSB) in Panitanki blocked entry into Nepal.

The daughter-in-laws arrived with papers. He had a ration card before his stay in the camp, which was provided by the Red Cross. Even after showing those documents, entry was very difficult. After nearly 3 hours of tussling with the Indian security personnel, they finally got into Nepal.

It's okay if you don't let go even after showing so many documents . After insisting that I would go to Siliguri and sit on a sit-in, the superior officer let me in, Rai said, "If I had not been allowed to enter, where would I have gone?" Bhutan would have caught him again and made him disappear.' 

come back again? At the time of leaving he was told . He said from Nepali, "Why did you come back?" I am going to Nepal after 31 years Nepal, India. I said that I am not in a position to come.'

Rai thinks that Bhutan claims to be the most peaceful and happy country. "When people earn 100 rupees, they have to pay 20 rupees to the government, how can a country where they cannot speak and write freely be a peaceful and happy country?"

The twin daughters were 9 years old when they ran the always-snowy Chemgang Central Jail, 16 kilometers from Thimphu. The two sons born after that were also very young. Now the daughters are in Nepal. The elder son is in America and the younger one is in Australia .

occasionally contact her . Because he was imprisoned when he was young, he did not get to see his father closely, nor did he know him . They didn't even get my love. If I was old enough to give love at that time, now they would have loved me too', adds Rai with a slightly sad expression, 'Love must be double, right?'