After a year when two major earthquakes struke Nepal I visited my beautiful "Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal.
I found the second world war 95 year old Gurkha veteran Mandhoj Thapa still taking shelter in temple with his sick wife in the capital in their last remaining twilight years.
Gurkhas especially the martial from Nepal did sacrifice the cream part of their lives for the vested interest of the British empire. But in the end when the war ended the Gurkhas were sent bare foot and empty hand and dump them like a garbage?
Neither the British nor the Nepalese government have the authentic records of the killed or the wounded Gurkhas, during the two bloody great wars and the wounded Gurkhas are forced to settle in Burma, Malaysia and other parts of the world.
Yam Gurung (Rtd)
Nepal
