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Tikaram Chapagai, 46, a Bhutanese refugee who resettled in New York in 2008 with help from the IRC, talks about his experience coming to the United States in "Hidden Lives: The Untold Story of Urban Refugees."
Nepalese people in Bhutan were allowed to practice their customs freely and openly until 1989 when the Bhutanese government introduced the slogan ‘one people, one nation’. They introduced a new system categorizing people as category one, two, three and four. Categories three and four had to leave, we had no choice, they held a gun to our heads.