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The agony of Amika burned life long like the fire of a wrecked US airplane in Bhutan.

. 26 Aug.18 Schipol . Born at the time and place an American Second World War fighter airplane crashed in   Dagana ,  Bhutan ; Amika has the war tainted fate crashing time and again.  Her struggle to begin a second life like other 80 000 exiled Lhotshampa ethnic minority Bhutanese in   America   ended half way in The Netherlands. Today only at the age of 76 she made a kick off to   America . Amika Dhahal- Forced to The Netherlands Although  forcibly exiled  by the Royal government of  Bhutan  in the year 1991, as part of its ethnic cleansing or to reduce the population of the ethnic minority Lhotshampas, she did not feel the transition to refugee life in  Nepal  miserable.    It’s because she was there along with the entire villagers of Tanju who are always at her side to help her out whatever she would ask for. She has two sons and three daughters. For this single mother, to nurture five children, all of them very young when they lost their father is much an uphill task in the