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Communal gardening helps refugees sink roots in a new land
« on: September 07, 2012, 02:51:18 am »
Communal gardening helps refugees sink roots in a new land

Mukti Raj Gurung?s last memory of his childhood home in Bhutan is a field of rice, ready to be picked. But his family never got to reap the harvest. When he was 14, their ancestral farm ? with its rice and corn fields, vegetables, cattle, horses and dogs ? was confiscated under a government policy of stripping ethnic Nepalis of their property and forcing them out of the country. For the next 20 ...

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