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61-year-old relocates on foot rejecting

An exiled Bhutan from Khudunabari camp has walked all the way from the camp to Sanischare stating that he would better choose to die than to board a vehicle.

New arrivals from Khudunabari at the reception center in Beldangi-II (Picture : Moses Lagoon)

61-year-old Dharma Dhoj Subba, who claimed he just had used a vehicle once in his life when he was in his teens, rejected to travel by LWF (Lutheran World Federation) bus during relocation.

Allowing his 6-member family to travel by the LWF bus, Subba walked from Khudunabari to Sanischare, reported our correspondent.

Formerly from Budune of Samtse district, Subba had walked almost for a week to reach Kakarvitta border when he was expelled from the country in 1993

“I became unconscious for several hours when I was traveling from Phuentsholing to Haa. That time I was just 18. I don’t want to have the same fate now,” Subba told Bhutan News Service before departing from Khudunabari on April 2.

According to his family source, he even walked from Khudunabari to Damak and vice-versa when AMDA (Association of Medical Doctors of Asia) had referred him for endoscopy a few years ago.