Three months on chains in Ram Bomjon’s Hell

How I was kidnapped, held hostage and tortured three months by Ram Bomjon. It is very traumatic for me to write down the details of that hell what Ram Bomjon and his followers created for me in 2012. Any time I try to describe the details,  I start to tremble. Many people asked me why I am always writing just in general terms, but never go into concrete details. It is because they had never spent three whole months chained to a tree by Ram Bomjon and tortured by him and his men… They cannot imagine what it does with the body and soul to recall that horror again and again.

Yet I really wished to describe as “graphically” as I could the horrors of Bomjon’s real face, and in the below article I tried my best. It exhausted me so much, that the article is full of typing errors, which I was still unable to fix, because it brings me back to the memory of that prolonged and unbearable suffering… On the other hand, many details of the perverse sexual abuse done in the name of Maitri Dharma and to the tact of the chanting by Tibetan monks are simply not publishable…

So I apologize to the reader for the sometimes confused chronology, typing errors and leaving out the most “adult topic” details in the text.

But I wish to support the latest  police reports emerging in 2018/2019 and encourage other victims to come forward as well. I am here adding my own case’s description. By this I also confirm that due to my own experiences, Gangamaya Tamang’s and other victims’ report should be taken seriously, and victims should get protection from Nepal’s Government (AND the international human rights organizations!) against Bomjon a his dangerous cult! Beware of them, and do not let your children and family to suffer like we, more than dozen victims did!

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Image above: an approximate reconstruction of the real situation I was in, by the help of Power Point image editor.

Content:

A volunteer and supporter – before the kidnapping in 2011

The day I never forget

Jas Waiba to buy chains

The midnight beating and breaking my wrists

Torture of a “witch”

Darshan and Tom come with sword “to cut my head” 

The sexual assault by Darshan Subba Limbu

The release

Police and immigration office did not treat me as a victim of crime but detained me and terrorized me further

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A volunteer and supporter – before the kidnapping in 2011

I enjoyed the Nepali nature and meditated deeply during the meetings with Bomjon. This screenshot of me is from a video Paolo Bignardi made during such a public event in spring 2011 in Halkhoriya.

I had been first invited to Halkhoriya in 2010 by Andrea Good, who was already in Nepal and she needed a companion. Her project was to translate Bomjon’s teachings into English, together with khenpo Sonam Gyurme, while staying in his Halkhoriya Compound. I could not arrive in 2010 as I had not enough money and could not leave my job. I arrived in January 2011. After the first week in Ngima Dawa Tamang’s guesthouse in Kapan, Kathmandu, we had been transferred to Halkhoriya. Andrea and I preferred to stay in a tent.

But after a few weeks very strange things started to happen, and the atmosphere in Halkhoriya was simply not at all spiritual. I was the only person who meditated. No one was praying. Bomjon was unseen, coming out from his secret jungle abode, where we were not allowed to even walk, only few times a week. Only his monks and nuns and family members, later only khenpo Sonam Gyurme had been allowed to enter there. Although, when his BSDS Committee members arrived, Mani Lama, Jas Bahadur Waiba or politicians, Bomjon had always allowed them to enter his inside premises. We lived in huts and tents.

Image above: the tent built by Andrea Good and me to adjust our plans to live “forever” in Halkhoriya as Ram Bomjon’s supporters and translators of his expected teachings into English. Source: photo by Andrea Good. 

I did not have any more money as left my job, and became dependent on sponsors from the Buddha Boy Google Group, of which I was manager together with Andrea Good (US-Japan) who was inviting me to stay in Bomjon’s jungle forever with her, and help his teachings translate into English. But no teachings had emerged, apart from a “Mahapranidhana”, which had been altered by khenpo Sonam Gyurme into a classical Tibetan Buddhist prayer. So we were working on that text, when Bomjon had suddenly announced that I had to move out from Halkhoriya.

I stayed in Nepal 5 months on a tourist Visa, always waiting that the BSDS Committee fulfils their promise to arrange for us, foreigners, volunteer visas. But they never did it. The prospect that I should leave Nepal was unacceptable for me, because I planned to stay in Halkhoriya and serve Bomjon forever with my translator talents. But my great plan of a spiritual life on the lap of pure nature  had faded away.

Above image: Still happily staying in Bomjon’s Halkhoriya Compound when Tsona rinpoche, khenpo Sonam Gyurme’s guru, was awaited to visit Bomjon. Tsona rinpoche became Bomjon’s follower. In a few years he committed suicide in Delhi! Near me is Nangsalji, the daughter of a monk Waiwa (who seem to have disappeared recently). Nangsal had been “found naked” at Bomjon’s jungle, later announced mentally ill and sent forcefully to a mental institution…Source: photo by Andrea Good.

When Bomjon did not allow me to stay in his Halkhoriya jungle settlement, I had literally nowhere to go at that point, in my 43^rd year of age.  So I just risked and believing in God’s help I continued to stay in Nepal, which I considered a holy religious land. In around August Bomjon sent me a message that I did not have to fear Visa restrictions, because it was him who had the power to decide if I could stay in Nepal or not (only recently had I realized that he certainly is more powerful in Nepal than the President, because he can literally alter the law). I trusted him, as Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski and Michael Leon had been also staying in Nepal prolonged time, but as they were Bomjon’s devotees, they did not have Visa problems. We all believed that time that Bomjon was Maitreya, the Messiah, a divine Avatar…

But there was actually no reason to excommunicate me from Halkhoriya, as I was very low profile, silent (often kept so-called “Mauna”, vow of non-speaking, for many days), I was not much involved in any power-struggles which were going on around me. The only thing I wanted to be allowed to stay in my tent, keep my meditations in the riverbed and forest, and live a simple life surrounded by an enchanting nature.

Having given up all my modest possessions and securities in Europe, at that stage I had nowhere to go. I was broken by losing my last hope how to live a holy and pure  life in the pristine nature, and having a place to stay safe (!) and eat in exchange for volunteer work. I did not have information about Bomjon’s attacks then, the stories of his former violent attacks had been changed by his Nepali followers to show Bomjon as the subject of attacks, not as the perpetrator. We all, foreigners present those days around him, believed the Nepali devotee-community that the negative news are some kind of conspiracy against an innocent meditator boy, and we all condemned the “evil media” which was, as we thought, twisting the truth… I was maybe one of his most fanatic followers, defending him against any criticism, and my writings, elevating Bomjon with names like “The Blessed One” and “The Enlightened” are still available on the Internet…

With a difficult heart but finally I accepted that I could not live in the jungle settlement anymore, and then stayed in Piluwa in Jas Bahadur Waiba’s house 5 months, and later on in Simara’s Lama Hotel and some time in Pharping. Both Waiba and the Lama Hotel owner Krishna meme, had been his followers, and both places had been very near to my beloved jungle, Halkhoriya. The truth is that all jungles in Nepal are enchanting, but I was not brave enough, as a European, to live alone, without any community, in a jungle. That time I still considered the community around Bomjon the best security for my dream to live in a jungle and still get basic facilities and human protection from wild animals. As it turned out a few months later, the main danger of the Nepalese jungles are not the wild animals, which never harmed me: it was the demonic human beings like Bomjon and his entourage, and the Satanist cult posing as a peace-loving religious group, which occupied them! My last place to stay was Simara’s small Buddhist Monastery, run by Tcheku Lama. But I used to return to Halkhoriya, a Government-owned public jungle by bus, for some nostalgic meditation, walking in the forest and bird-watching. I was always careful to be far from the outskirts of Bomjon’s compound, though.

The day I never forget

My disaster started when on December 28, 2011. Suddenly I had been invited by Bomjon to return to Halkhoriya compound.  I was a little happy and a little worried, because already once Bomjon was very violent with me, when I was first kidnapped in October 2011 and held locked up for one day in a house in the jungle. I did not enjoy living in Nepal’s polluted, noisy industrial “bazaars” like Simara was. My situation was getting hopeless, as I have programmed myself for a life in Nepal and in the nature. That time in October he hit me with his hand and let Dorje (Tomasz Tarnawski) and Bal Hari Rai to tie me with a plastic rope. I was then rescued by Binu Lama and Krishna meme from Simara (of the above mentioned Lama Hotel) who arrived to take me away from Bomjon in a car.

A brief description of this “first kidnapping” in October 2011:

I went to bring the ashram’s lost dog back to them, the “white dog” (she can be seen on many Halkhoriya photos) who strayed away to Piluwa village. They attacked me when it went dark and I was afraid to return at night to the village, 6 km in the jungle. Bomjon told them I was a witch, so they should be brutal with me. He told them “pirnu, katnu, marnu” (hit her, cut her, kill her), when she arrives. Tom jumped on me when I came to ask them for a one-night shelter (I heard some animal roar and got scare, so I thought I could find safety in Bomjon’s compound among other people). He pulled me to the ground and stepped on my back, and immediately tied my hands with  plastic rope, very strongly. I was begging them please don’t harm me, I just returned the white puppy as she was lost in the village, but they told I was a witch and came to kill Bomjon! I was shocked at their extremely aggressive behavior, as we all used to be devotee-friends before the incident.

That time Tomasz (Dorje) was torturing me, together with Shyangbo Dong and Bal Hari Rai, tying my wrists with plastic ropes so strong that the blood circulation stopped and started to lose the feeling of my hands. Bomjon released the ropes then a bit, so by this I was confused and thought that he was after all not so cruel. Yet he destroyed my possessions, throwing them to fire, including my flash drives and EU health insurance card. He had also stolen my ID card. But even after all this happened, I still considered this as some kind of spiritual test and I wished to prove that I had great devotion and self-discipline, that I was ready for a “Buddha-style meditation”, hardships and asceticism… That Bomjon’s brutality is not a testing and that he was never interested in my spiritual development, I had to learn a few months later, more painfully, and when I had no way to escape anymore…

Above image: Bal Hari Rai after 2012 in Europe, after he acquired an EU citizenship due to a marriage with Czech Jana Klepkova, whom he immediately divorced afterwards. Bal Hari was already married long-time in Kakarbhitta and had a child when he married parallel with Jana, who did not know it. Both were present during my tortures, Jana only as a passive witness, Bal Hari as a proactive torturer. Source: Facebook 

Above image: Jana Klepkova, Czech Republic, was the girlfriend of Bal Hari Rai, and was present in Halkhoriya during both of my kidnapping and torture in October 2011 as well later, in December 2011 to March 2012. She witnessed the tortures, but did not help, although I begged her to rescue me. She was fanatically devoted to Ram Bomjon and in love with Bal Hari Rai, so she did not even think of helping me, although we were both from the same country. She did not harm me directly though. Source: former official website of Ram Bomjon.

 

Jas Waiba to buy chains

On 28 December 2011, Tcheku Lama went with me to Halkhoriya when Darshan Limbu and Budha lama had been sent out by Bomjon to the East-West Highway to call me to his Halkhoriya Compound. I believed that he would not do anything bad to me, but I rather requested Tcheku Lama to go with me.  It was evening.

That evening Bomjon did not harm me and did not tie me with ropes, but he told “from now on you can stay in Halkhoriya all your life”. I thought this meant that I had been re-accepted as a member of his Sangha, because there had been already many people living there, also foreigners like the British brother of Michael Leon, who saw me when I was kidnapped, and Ivy Jugoa of the Netherlands, Kim Nguyen of California, etc.were in and out of Halkhoriya. Also there were around 50-100 Nepalese followers living in the Halkhoriya settlement that time, mostly Tamangs, and they had been cooking a lot of food, even five times daily. I remember how surprised I was seeing the hedonistic lifestyle, while everyone outside thought that Bomjon and his nearest disciples in the jungle lived a religious, meditative and Ascetic life. That time Bomjon’s jungle villa “Kajogpa” was being built so many villagers were working and staying there.

Bomjon invited his followers from different districts for a meeting the next day for the sole reason of parading me in front of them, as some kind of prey. It was awkward as he could easily have me there if he did not have banned me a few months back, in the first place. And it was also odd because I was still his follower and ardent propagator that time, while the whole setting had been made to create the impression of me being his ardent enemy. I was totally confused, while still trying to force myself to “trust the enlightened guru” that he knew exactly what is good and spiritually necessary for me and the others.

Lama Tcheku slept one night in Halkhoriya, and Jas Bahadur Waiba had been also invited, with Nil Bahadur Thing and other leaders.  The next day at the meeting Bomjon had accused me in front of them (in Nepali, that time I understood just a little) of being a witch (Bokshi) and disturbing his meditation. When he told I could now stay in Halkhoriya forever (!), just that on chains, everyone burst out in laughter, including Jas Waiba. Everyone in that community knew how much I loved the Halkhoriya jungle, and how broken I was when Bomjon banned me from staying there with them. Lama Tcheku was but nervous and asked Bomjon to release him as he suffered from diabetes. Bomjon allowed him to go. He left me there alone because Bomjon did not let me go anymore. 

Above image: Jas Bahadur Waiba (on the right) during the defending of Bomjon against the rape accusations by Gangamaya Tamang (18) who was a minor when the rapes started. Mani Lama (left), his long-time friend was the one who covered up Bomjon’s crime against me in 2012, when in a press conference he ordered, he justified Bomjon keeping me 3 months against my will in his jungle, as a kind of “help” to me to meditate. He told them that “I was given a tent”, as if that proved that I was not suffering at all and that I enjoyed myself. He “forgot” to tell I was on chains, beaten to black and blue and to many fractures and also sexually assaulted. Source: Keepvid

Bomjon did not speak to me at all, anything. He only spoke to his other followers, about me. He told Waiba to take his motorbike and go to the city to buy chains for me. Waiba went.

First he only locked me inside one of the so-called office houses, ugly concrete huts built in Halkhoriya by his followers, but later he sent Tomasz to tie me with ropes and one chain as well. I was tied in a storehouse, surrounded with big sacks of rice and other food items, but I was put far from the food so that I could not eat. They also put my bag (with some food, clothes) far from me, so I could not reach it. Tamang ladies had come to the room, siting there for hours every day, sorting food items and textiles, chatted, laughed, but apparently none of them considered me human being, it was just a normal sight for them to see me tied with ropes while I was unable to lie down, eat, go to the toilet… I could not believe my eyes, that people could behave with so much cruelty, indifference to the other person’s helpless condition, and ignoring another human being’s suffering, and even enjoy it…

Seemingly normal village ladies and girls, monks, nuns, who knew me as a devotee and translator-volunteer from the previous months… No one seemed to get surprised why was I on ropes and later on chains, why was I not invited to eat with them, not allowed to go to the toilet alone…

Today I am thinking, was this a regular situation in Bomjon’s ashrams? There were tied and tortured victims from time to time, it was maybe just the most everyday sight for them, and they just continued to do their daily chores as usual… This is really a sick cult, now I understand, paralyzing human conscience!

For a a few days I was left staying in that room, while around me a lot of social life, cooking, sorting donated food items, a big commotion had been happening daily. I think they had been feverishly preparing the so called Maitri Puja, which was planned for that March with tens of thousands of invited followers. Bomjon had paraded me as a “witch” and many followers came to look into the window just to see me. No one spoke to me (they had been forbidden to). It was like I was an animal in a ZOO. No one helped me or no one alerted police, because Bomjon told them lies about me (I learned later), that I was a witch (Bokshi) and even that I wanted to kill him, that I disturbed his meditation, or that I was a spy … They all believed, of course, as Bomjon was their god, their Tamang national leader, their local saint and Nepal’s famous Buddha-incarnation!

They did not seem to really grasp what was the teaching of Gautama Buddha, as most of Bomjon’s followers were illiterate and not religious at all.  Although they had been parroting mantras including the words like Karuna (compassion) and Maitri (friendly love to everyone), people around Bomjon seemed to have the links between religious words and applying them in real situations, frozen and broken…

Dorje (Tomasz) was especially cruel and brutal with me, when I asked him that I needed to go to toilet he left me many hours, and just later he carried me out, still in chains.  Bal Hari Rai’s girlfriend Jana Klepkova was later assigned to stay with me inside the toilet, but at the patrolling presence of Tomasz Tarnawski, so that I don’t untie myself or don’t escape from the window. As I was entangled in heavy chains, I could not walk or do my needs properly. Women, men, red-robed monks and nuns and even children had been watching me during these visits to the toilet and back, and no one reacted as a human being should. I had menstruation but Bomjon did not allow me to use my pads which were in my bag, neither to change my clothes.

One nun arrived, P. who secretly took some of my clean clothes from my bag nearby, and changed them on me, because of the ropes and chains it was difficult to change them. She also gave me my pads. But she could not do anything more to help me. She was convinced that Tomasz (Dorje) is the “bad guy”, and that “Guruji” did not know about how they were torturing me. Then Dorje soon realized that someone had helped me and sent her away and never again did I see her. Bomjon very rarely showed up among his followers, and let them to stay in illusion about who was behind my kidnapping.

Above image: I had been kept the first week or so in this house at the riverbed, in the settlement of Halkhoriya Jungle, locked inside and tied with ropes and later one chain, until Jas Bahadur Waiba arrived with much more heavy chains and I was brought to the deeper jungle and tied to a tree later. I this photo Ivy Jugoa of the Netherlands is painting Bomjon’s portrait a few months before my torturing. She openly accused me of being a witch on her Facebook site, and wrote to Michiel Hegener (left the cult) that I should be tortured again! Source: private collection.

 

Above image: In this house the police found ropes and syringes, after I had been released and Mata Ani as well. They thought, based on the finds, that Mata Ani was locked up here by Bomjon 2 months. She did not acquire trust in the Nepalese police to speak out, and soon disappeared after being released by Bomjon at the pressure of the media. This hut was along the way to Bomjon’s “meditation tree”. Mata Ani was an elder and fragile shaman lady, a recluse Sadhuni, wearing white robes to show her devotion to Bomjon. Before the incident, I used to see her healing villagers with rituals and prayers and in deep meditation during Bomjon’s public gatherings. Source: Sagarmatha Television, Nepal, YouTube. 

Lama Tcheku also returned, looked in the window, and apparently shocked, he promised me that he would get me out. That time I was still thinking that Bomjon was a guru and that all this was just some kind of spiritual test, testing my devotion and self-discipline. We had been brainwashed regularly by his Nepali followers that Bomjon was an Ascetic, suffering a lot, persecuted by “enemies of Dharma”, even attacked and shot while meditating, etc. Many of us, fanatic foreigners, propelled by our main reporter Andrea Good, had felt that it was our duty to “suffer out” at least part of the dose of what Bomjon had to “suffer”…

It was a similar mentality like when Christian saints wished to suffer like Jesus had to, to lessen the burden of their God… For us,  followers, Bomjon was like our Jesus, because we were totally convinced that he had been suffering immensely on his alleged Ascetic meditation path, from bodily needs, people, aggression, authorities etc. No one gave us proofs, though, and we had never seen him actually suffering: these were legends.

So that time I did still could not imagine the extreme torture that Bomjon was planning to do to me, after he sent me to be chained inside the jungle, just a few meters from his residence (Kajogpa). I was still in a confused brainwashed state, believing that he only wished to initiate me to the same Ascetic meditation practice that he himself was doing. Or that he was in some way playing a theater in front of his “evil followers” to teach us all some kind of spiritual lesson…

After many days in the room I got very hungry. Although they put me there a small bowl of noodle soup, but I was afraid that they could have put drugs or poison inside it. I saw once Tomasz to take out from the shelves two small medical flasks with one red and another greenish liquid, if I remember well. I waited many days until the noodle soup dried, and  saw a mouse eating it, and the mouse did not die, so I decided to eat it, because I was already fainting from hunger. I think now that they did use drugs in my food and water.

Above: This photo was made during the time when I was held hostage in this jungle, just a few minutes walk behind this path. Budha lama, who was involved directly in my kidnapping, tying and torture, is on his left. Behind them there is a nun, this nun is now among those who disappeared and parents reported her missing to police. She might have been involved in the secret that Bomjon was holding and torturing us, two women (Mata Ani and me) here, because apart from this small group no one was allowed inside this part, it was fenced and patrolled. Source: private collection. 

When Waiba arrived with the new chains and huge heavy lockers, first Bomjon wanted to tie me near the clay-and-wood prolonged house where the nuns had been staying (and where I myself had spent a few days as well, when staying in Halkhoriya with Andrea Good in 2011). Everyone had seen me there, chained to a tree, nuns and monks, also lay people, around a hundred of people, but apparently no one thought that it was unethical or unlawful to tie a foreign woman of 43 years to a tree by chains, especially after she arrived to support the “guru” and find solace after her baby had died… At that point, if I remember well, the only foreigner present was Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski. I was shocked how all those people could be so insensitive, inhuman and ignore my suffering!

I was left there tied for the day, and later transferred to a deeper part of the jungle, where no one could see me. Usha didi, Bomjon’s wife Dipshika’s aunt from Mirik, Darjeeling had been assigned by Bomjon to clear the small area among trees of grass and bushes, while Budha lama, Khaiba, Tomasz (Dorje), Budha lama and older monks made a barbed-wire fence around it, Usha camouflaged it with tree branches fixed into the barbed-wire fence, and they built my own tent there. It was a gift from my partner, who sent it to me to Nepal by post.

Tomasz fastened all the chains with huge lockers, as heavy and massive as they could apparently find in the shops. It was even bizarrely tragicomic, how Bomjon wanted to emphasize with the sizes of chains and lockers his claim that I was a “witch” who could eventually escape in case not chained with the heaviest of metals. Tomasz, a bold-headed Polish man with blue eyes, was doing his job to chain me with apparent enjoyment. I was frozen by the shock, as he used to be my devotee-friend before, and we had many deep conversations during my stay in Halkhoriya before. I tried to find out with careful questions, how could he… ? But apparently he was ordered by Bomjon not to exchange words with me. How could Bomjon change people from normal human beings into demons, was a surprise to me.

Tomasz fastened the chains with 6 lockers and had been carrying the keys in his pockets 3 all months. One locker was holding the chain on my neck, its other end locking the chain around the tree trunk. Two other lockers on my ankles and their other ends fastened by two other lockers to the tree. The picture I had drawn to this article, which is showing the 6 lockers and short but massive chains, is not an exaggeration.

Still in the first days of being hostage, Bomjon ordered Darshan Subba Limbu and Budha lama, who was in red monk robe, to go on their motorbike to my accommodation in Simara town’s Buddhist Monastery, where all my possessions, a few bags, including my notebook computer, had been stored under the altar. The mother of Tcheku lama, who was the caretaker of the monastery, allowed them in, when they asked her to open and bring out my bags, with the lie that I had been allowed by Bomjon to meditate in Halkhoriya and I needed to bring my bags. They had taken my bags and computer, but they have never gave me to use anything of it, and stole my computer. Until this day they had not returned it. Nearly all of my Western clothes had been looted by the Tamang followers, even my underwear, and my personal documents, my spiritual diary and personal notes had been taken apart and dirtied by urine. When I was released by Bomjon, only a half-empty backpack with a few old clothes and the dirtied papers had been returned to me. All electronic gadgets (music-player, mobile, keyboard etc.) I brought to Nepal to efficiently report, glasses, sunglasses, expensive jacket and clothes had been missing. Bomjon had never returned my ID card either. The tent, sent from Europe by my ex-partner, was among those things brought by Darshan to the jungle.

Later on during my hostage time, Darshan Subba Limbu polluted the tent with his sperm during the time of his repeated sexual assaults, polluting my only memory to a person in Europe whom I loved, and whose child I had been still mourning … That time I knew that Bomjon was nothing spiritual, and nothing even human, he was a demon!

Above: Usha Tamang of Mirik, Darjeeling, standing behind (left to right) Manu (Bomjon’s sister), a Japanese follower, An US follower Barry Ryder, Andrea Good and Ganga Tamang (Bomjon’s brother). The picture is from 2008 or 2010. Usha is Bomjon’s wife, Dipshika’s aunt. Manu had been beaten by Bomjon in 2015 and died of the injuries in 2016. Source: former official website of Ram Bomjon as well as private collection.  

So I had been chained in a sophisticated way by Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski (Dorje) to a dry tree with 3 chains and 6 lockers, fastened around my ankles and neck. I had only ½ meters circumference from that tree to move. I could not stand up or lie down. I was in this position 3 months, with the only “break” when they unchained me and brought out to the settlement to Bomjon to beat me and break my wrists (re-break my right broken wrist and break my left wrist anew), which is described in the part “Midnight beating”.

Above image: Bomjon is walking with khenpo Dhawa Shanbo and Budha lama in the fenced and forbidden area where I had been kept during that time (and somewhere else Mata Ani), during the MaitriPuja 2012. Some devotee made this photo. The man holding a camera was called Mahesh and was Jas Waiba’s daughter’s boyfriend. Everywhere there were boards with NO ENTRANCE writing. The place of the tree where I was tied was just 3-5 min. walk from this path. This path led to Bomjon’s residency inside the jungle, which was very near to the place where he chained me to  tree. Source: private collection

I had been tortured there regularly by Dorje and Darshan in various ways. One very bizarre and unbelievable way to torture me was by Bomjon himself, but that I had told not to disclose, in exchange to be freed.  That torturing method could easily make anyone entirely mad, because that is so shocking and mind-crushing that one could even die from the trauma of disbelief. It is but a rather psychological way of torture, and if people knew about it, hardly could they even believe that Bomjon was so cruel. First it looked like a spiritual test, and only after 3 months had passed I had realized that Bomjon was the most demonic torturer of the world I ever heard about, a genial demon, a demonic genius…

Every time I hear about next and next people kidnapped and tortured by Bomjon, and recently even about those who had been allegedly killed by him, I recall those horrors and hell atmosphere that he is surrounded by inside his own private jungles. I feel terribly pity for those poor victims who had to go through what I myself had! Please stop supporting that monster and his gang!

 

The midnight beating and breaking my wrists

 

I had been visited at that lonely place only by Darshan and Dorje. Needless to say, their main intention was to beat me, most of the time. They had been carrying different sticks, sometimes woode, bamboos, plastic, metal. My body was always beaten up by them, but just to the limits of damage. As I was already extremely weak and malnourished during the latest weeks, any beating was aching too long. There had been other sickly elaborated torturing methods as well, which could fill up a book. Yet at one point, during a midnight of a Dark Moon, sometimes in February or March, the apparent culmination of all tortures took place.

I had been unchained from the tree that I was chained to three months, but my feet and neck still chained together, brought in the hands of 4-5 monks, Dorje, Darshan, Molam lama, Budha lama and others to Bomjon to the main settlement (of women, children, monks and nuns) where Bomjon was sitting on a plastic chair. He ordered them to throw me in front of his feet, and he started to beat me with a very thick and long bamboo stick, all over my body. My feet had remained chained to each-other and my neck chained to my feet. I was unable to stand up, I was just lying on the ground. He had been beating me mercilessly, while all the above people had been laughing at my suffering.

Above: The sandy “platform” immediately along the dry riverbed (from which followers of Bomjon made a road) where Bomjon had been beating me, together with Molam Lama (now disappeared Suresh Magar), Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski (Dorje), khenpo Dhawa Shanbo, Darshan Limbu and Budha Lama. On both sides there had been numerous buildings (now demolished) where around 100 devotees, monks, nuns and families had been staying and watching! No one came for my help! Source: private collection. 

 

Then he told Suresh Magar (Molam lama), who was a red-robed monk that time, to take down the bandage from my right wrist which was already broken in Halkhoriya Jungle when he kidnapped me (The story would be too long to describe this sequence. I made a fixing bandage with my shawl and two sticks before Bomjon had kidnapped me). It was not healed yet. Magar took down the bandage and Bomjon told him to break my wrist again! He re-broke my already once broken hand again. During that Magar was smiling and telling me “Don’t be afraid, Marici, I am a doctor”. (Magar had been studying medicine, but failed his exams).

Above image: Molam lama or Suresh Ale Magar (now disappeared and his father reported him missing to police) was active during torturing me on chains, assisting to Bomjon, Tomasz and Darshan to carry my chained body from the jungle to the beating place, and he also broke my already broken right wrist at the direct order of Bomjon, while smiling! Source: private collection, photo made by Andrea Good. 

Right after this Bomjon pulled my right hand from Magar and broke it himself again! After this he took my left hand and broke the wrist of my left hands also.

Then he was beating my head, forehead with the stick, until blood started to drip to the earth. Only in that moment did he stop. He told to about 6-7 Tamang ladies who had been in the kitchen, to boil water and wash the wound on my head. They did it with very boiling water and roughly. Most of the residents of the Halkhoriya ashram had been watching how Bomjon and his attendants were beating and torturing me, but no one stopped him.

Bomjon then told them to bring me back to the jungle, to the same tree and chain me there again. My broken hands were hanging lifelessly from my arm, and I was losing my consciousness from the torture and pain. Later Darshan told me that when Bomjon ordered them to bring me to the Halkhoriya platform (where he beat me), he told them that “tonight I will kill Marici”.

During the 3 months on chain Bomjon did not come to the tree where he let me chain, only around 2-3 times. He had been watching me from a few meters far from time to time. But he was sending regularly his followers Darshan Subba Limbu and Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski (called Dorje)o regularly torture me, and occasionally bring me food. And very little water. Darshan and Dorje had been beating me with sticks every 2-3 days, sometimes every day. Dorje did not speak, Darshan spoke too much, trying to terrorize me, calling me with indecent words and frightening me that I am going to die soon. Every time he came he told that I would be killed soon, “tomorrow” or on this or that day…

Darshan also told that there are MANY PEOPLE TIED TO CHAINS LIKE ME IN THE HALKHORIYA JUNGLE, and he was telling that this is Guruji’s New Dharma. Sometimes Darshan was psychologically playing with me, speaking nicely then again torturing me. He told me that they had also captured Tcheku lama (this was not true), just to frighten me that the only person who knew I was Bomjon’s hostage, is also kidnapped. Darshan also told that no one knows that I was here, and that everyone forgot me.  He also claimed that  was a sinner and that I was going to die for my sins. I asked him “please tell me what sins did I do to you that you hate me so much?” but Darshan never told.

One night Darshan arrived with Dorje (Tomasz) with a sword. He told that Guruji had ordered them to cut my head. I was so weak and broken that I did not even shout or ask for mercy. Dorje pulled me out of the tent (Bomjon put my own tent there, as it was winter and there was not much vegetation. That time I thought it was some kind of mercy inside his cruelty to me, but now  think it was t give an impression, in case some Nepali or foreign devotee wandered around, that I was staying in  tent in the jungle and enjoying myself. No one was allowed to come near, so from far they could not see I was on chains. I never shouted for help when I saw people on the jungle paths walking, because I was sure that they would beat me even more or even kill me if I asked for help. I also knew that Bomjon’s followers all agreed with the torture of me, no one helped me or wanted o rescue me.

 

The keys from the huge lockers on the chains had been in the pockets of Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski, Bomjon’s main important man.  There had been two chains on both of my feet, and one on my neck There had been 6 heavy lockers, first to chain my feet together to each-other and to my neck (3) and then to chain all the chains to the tree (3) ,the heavy metal chains and lockers had caused a lot of pain and bruises during the 3 months of staying there until today I have problems with my neck joints and right ankle I had been chained to the tree in about half meter distance, so I could not move, stand up or fully go inside my tent, which they built there to hide me. I could only lie down at the entrance to the tent.

They gave me a dirty and thorn warm blanket and my own sleeping bag. I had to do my toilet in the same place where I was staying 3 months. As I had broken wrists, first one, in the last month March two broken, I was unable to properly look after my hygiene. I also had been menstruation and I requested Bomjon through a message through Darshan to allow me to use the menstruation pads which were in my bags (the bags had been kept by Bomjon) he did not allow! It was extremely difficult to me to tear my shawl to pieces with two broken hands, to arrange for my menstruation. Bomjon apparently enjoyed that I was staying in my own dirt 3 months, not enabling me to wash myself I requested them to bring me water to wash, but Darshan refused

I was hearing shooting exercises very near to the place where I was tied, nearly every day I was afraid that Bomjon is planning to shoot m. I was sure he was planning to kill me, but  did not know how and when, as Darshan was always telling a different date and way this was a psychological torture, and Darshan did it very happily!

I had been kept in this deep jungle, not far from the whitish patch in the middle, which (according to my memories) was the area of the water spring. The black water patch is the “Halkhoriya Pond” at the side of which Bomjon built his villa “Kajogpa” in 2012. Bomjon’s famous “meditation tree” can be clearly seen on the left upper part of the satellite image. he settlement of devotees had been gradually built in the area of the arrow path traversing the riverbed, seen on the bottom middle of the image. his image is from 2008, so not much can be seen yet.

Before this kidnapping Darshan used to be my friend, as well as Dorje and others, we worked together and supported Bomjon’s cause I also supported financially Darshan’s mother Sapana living in Piluwa, and his two children living in Kakarbhitta, by the help of foreign sponsors. But Darshan had been turned against me by Bomjon and I was shocked At one point, before the kidnapping Darshan wanted a relationship with me, but I refused, telling that I came to Nepal for Dharma, that I was in celibacy and if I wanted a relationship,  would return to my husband in Europe. Darshan might have felt insulted by the refusal and happily fulfilled all the torture tasks that Bomjon told him

When in the end of March I started to hear buses arriving in Halkhoriya, I was sure that the long-advertised Maitri Puja 2012 is going to take place Nose from crowds of people could be heard. But my place was strictly guarded, fenced and no one was allowed to enter to the area  Darshan arrived much more often than Dorje that month, and beating me many times.

Above; three friends and torture assistants of Bomjon, Dorje (Tomasz Tarnawski), Bal Hari Rai of Kakarbhitta and Darshan Subba Limbu born in Piluwa, living in Kakarbhitta and Siliguri. Source: private collection. 

Torture of a “witch”

Apart from the regular beatings by Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski and Darshan Subba Limbu (Bomjon had beaten me only once, the “Midnight beating”), there was also other torture during the 3 month hostage. Shyangbo Dong (Dawasha Lama on Facebook) had come to me and spit on me repeatedly, because he was convinced that I was a witch, as Bomjon told everyone. He was the one who tortured me during the first kidnapping in October 2011, when I was hostage only one night. That time Tomasz Tarnawski was tying the plastic ropes o my wrists so strongly that I was crying in horror that he stopped the blood circulating in my hands. I was lying on the ground, because Tomasz jumped on me before and pushed me down, although I did not show any resistance when they decided to catch me. I was there to return the lost dog of Halkhoriya, which came to Piluwa village. Bomjon told them that I was a witch and came to kill him! So the followers dealt with me cruelly.

 

Above image: Tomasz Henryk Tarnwski (Dorje) and Bal Hari Rai in 2011. Source: private collection. 

When I was shouting “please release the ropes, I will lose my hands!” no one was helping me. Tomasz Tarnawski is a dangerous Sadistic man, who has no sensitivity when torturing people. He was involved in nearly ALL violent cases as Bomjon’s assistant, from 2011 till today. Many Tamang follower ladies and children had been watching how Tomasz was torturing me, but did not help. Shyangbo Dong came to me and told with smiling into m face: “Don’t shout because if you do, I will kill you with electric shock!”

Above: Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski (Dorje) 

In 2012, during the second kidnapping, Shyangbo Dong was also there. He came to me and asked “Do you know who I am?” I remembered he was torturing me in 2011 as well, so I was afraid. “I am Shyangbo Dong.  Have already met you here before!” and he spit on me.

Above: Shyangbo Dong (Dawasha Lama). Source: Facebook

At two or three different occasions Shyangbo Dong arrived to the tree where I was chained, with the painter of Bomjon’s Thangka pictures, Khaiba, an older monk. They brought human excrements in a bag and threw them on me and on the area where  was staying and again spitting on me. At another occasion Shyangbo Dong and Tomasz Tarnawski threw human excrements from a big sack on me and on my area.

Other ways of torture were countless. Darshan Subba Limbu wanted to force me to drink his urine and his sperm. I did not. So he pissed in the half cup f tea which was my only “ration” for many days, so that I would be forced to drink it when I get thirsty.

Above: Budha lama (the younger) and khenpo Dhawa Shanbo. Both had been actively assisting to Bomjon in kidnapping and torturing me in 2012, both present during the midnight beating by Bomjon and fracturing my hand. Khenpo Dhawa was laughing when Bomjon was hitting me with the bamboo stick. He was holding the light for Bomjon to see me, because it was night. Source: public .

Darshan and Tom come with sword to “cut my head”

Above image: Darshan Subba Limbu in Halkhoriya. Source: Facebook

At one occasion Darshan arrived with a big ancient-style sword, and with Tomasz Tarnawski (Dorje). They told that they are going to kill me with beheading. I was too weak to protest, and I knew if I shout no one would help me, because all followers of Bomjon living that time in Halkhoriya, knew that I was chained there and tortured, and many foreigners knew too, and no one came to rescue me. In the deep jungle there was no one who would be normal, human, no one who would care about God or humanity. The normal world was 6 km far away from that place, on the highway.

So I prepared to be killed. Tarnawski held me down on the ground and Darshan raised the heavy and sharp sword. But Darshan was nervous. I tried to speak kindly to him, think about what will a murder do with your conscience, it is a sin which you can hardly wash away ever” I told. Then Darshan moved down the sword and cut only my long hair. I think this was a plan to terrorize me. Later Darshan cut the rest of my hair with scissors.

Above image: Bomjon’s sword in a widely reproduced French TV documentary from 2006 or 2007, when he was hiding in the Bagjora Jungle at Hetauda, running away from Halkhoriya. Source: YouTube, Bomjon with sword. 

That time Darshan told that I can choose when I would be killed. I told I don’t want to be killed. He told they will kill me anyway, but they offer me a choice. I told it is nonsense. Everyone wants to live long. I told I want to live at least another 20 years. He told it is not allowed. So slowly he reduced my “choice” to 5 years. “You will be killed in 5 years” Darshan told.

These are typical torture methods in Nepal against so-called “witches”, as I learned after my release. Bomjon is breaking not only ethics, but also law by accusing innocent people, women and men, to be witches, and provoking such hatred against us in the group of his followers. Surprisingly not only uneducated Tamang villagers believed that I was a witch, but even many foreigners. Bomjon misused his reputation as a “Buddha Boy’ to harm many people with witch accusations and lies that they “disturbed his meditation”. It was never true.

The sexual assault by Darshan Subba Limbu

Image above: Darshan Limbu awarded for his services of torturing numerous victims, by ordination to be a monk. Those times Bomjon’s followers still did not wear blue robes, as today. The used to wear classical red-yellow Buddhist robes. In this photo, long available on followers’ Facebook sites, Darshan is shown to have caught a snake. 

When the Puja’s chanting (to the Seven Deities) started in the load speakers, Darshan came once that “Guruji had allowed me to do with you what I want” in a very special sense that I understood Darshan told that he is allowed to kill me or let me alive, anything. I did not believe the words of Darshan, because he was telling many similar things. But then he told me that he is going to rape me, and if I do not shout and do not protest, by this I would be saved and rescued. “After this I can release you and you can go away “ he told .But I already knew he was lying

I told him that I was very dirty and he would get ill from raping me. I also showed him my swollen glands because I had been beaten by many ticks in the jungle, and I got infection from them, so my lymphatic glands got swollen. I realized I could stop him trying to rape me if I tell that I had syphilis and AIDS, and this excuse really seemed to help Darshan decided not to rape me after I told this

But he came again later and he forced me to oral sex very brutally. During that I nearly suffocated to death  Darshan also dirtied all my body and clothes with his biological dirt and I was not allowed to wash myself I consider this behavior inside Ram Bomjon’s Ashram, in the name of Dharma and at the order and full agreement of Bomjon a blasphemy of God and a totally inhuman treatment of a follower! Now I think that Bomjon and his followers had been doing similar things to many women, and maybe they even killed them later so they could not describe the truth!

Above image: In May-June 2011 we were still all friends, when Bomjon did not yet turn us against each-other. we all arrived to support him and pray for his success. From left to right: Darshan Subba Limbu, Ivy Jugoa, Marici, Nika Lapkovskaya, Bal Hari Rai. If one told me that time that these people (except Nika) would one day torture me, sexually assault me and defame me as a “witch”, I would have thought the person was joking… Source: private.

When Darshan started to sexually assault me, I finally realized that there was nothing spiritual in Bomjon, nothing true in his words, and that I was actually in the hands of demons and in a hell situation. Even Darshan told me that I was in Hell. He had cynically accepted that he had been chosen to make Hell for me in Halkhoriya

Darshan had his wife Sara and two children, Manish and Anish in Halkhoriya that time, all of them just a few meters from the place that he was sexually abusing me.

Buddhist (Tamang) monks had been guarding me during daytime, but at sunset Darshan always sent them away, and they went He was sexually assaulting me after no one was there. Still, some witness might have seen what he was doing to me, because after my release in 24 March 2012, that eye-witness informed the Avenues TV media that I was sexually assaulted, even if I was planning not to tell it anyone (I promised Darshan that if they let me free, I would not tell it)

Many followers of Bomjon knew I was there, but did not help me. One person came only to keep me in hopes, telling me not to be afraid, that the person would inform the police and Waiba what is going on with me Later I heard that some people requested Jas Bahadur Waiba to release me, because he was a good friend of Bomjon, but Waiba told that to keep me there was “Guruji’s order” and he could not change it.

 

Above: this photo was made exactly during the time when I was still held on chains in this very jungle. Many of these people knew it, Shyangbo Dong (front, laughing) and Khaiba (the monk on the right) even actively tortured me with excrements and spitting. After my release a lot of indecent defamation had been spread against me by the blond hairy man from Scandinavia (Gyalpo?) and the short haired woman. Ivy Jugoa (long hair, glasses) of The Netherlands had been calling upon re-kidnapping me on her Facebook site, and justified my torture because she claimed I was a witch. Source: Facebook

I did not know when the 5 journalists arrived to the Maitri Puja and tried to investigate my whereabouts in Bomjon’s compound. They were filming his preaching when they were attacked by Dorje (Tomasz) and Darshan, Bal Hari Rai and others, aggressively. Hey took the cameras of some, broke them and destroyed the records of some. He Armed Police forces present during Bomjon’s Puja did not protect the journalists also they did not rescue me, although they surely knew I was kept as hostage there, because Waiba’s son Uttam was a member of that Piluwa APF. So the APF had been hijacked by Bomjon to help him against the law, instead of protecting the law .

Above image: Armed Police Forces (APF) of Bara District’s Piluwa base had been regularly lining up for receiving Ram Bomjon’s blessings. They never protected those whom Bomjon attacked. Source: YouTube and Prateek Daily. 

When there was a growing pressure on the media (the media had been also informing all 3 months in Nepal that I was held hostage, and still the Government ad police did not come to Halkhoriya to rescue me!), the finally Bomjon was convinced by his followers to let me free.

The foreigners who were present had made a meeting to decide what to do with me. I was told later, after my release, by Catherine of France, that the meeting decided to release me, but to immediately put me to immigration jail and deport me, because they were afraid that I could make a police report or speak to the media about the truth what Bomjon did to me with his followers. It was told to me that Bomjon gave them an “election” to collectively decide what to do with me: to kill me, to release me or to send to immigration jail (one other option was to send to “crazy house” as Darshan called it, like they silenced Nangsalji). After a discussion they decided to release me (for the media to show) and immediately arrest and put to jail secretly. Catherine did not want them to cause me more harm, she claimed to me. But the rest of the foreign leaders, Andrea Good, Kim Nguyen, Ivy Jugoa, Tomasz (Dorje) and their Nepali translator Pragya Ratna Ghullu had decided to arrange that after my release I would not be allowed to be free either!

Above image: All of these foreigners had been present during the 2012 Maitri Puja, and knew I had been kept hostage there, with different extent of the details. Andrea Good (standing) knew the most, and obviously Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski (right) who was one of my brutal torturers and keepers of the keys of the lockers. The photo of an Indian devotee who was not involved in any harmful activities, had been wiped out by me to protect his privacy. Source: Facebook. 

 

 

Above image: Some foreigners and Nepali monks who had been involved in my kidnapping, hostage keeping, tortures and defamation. from left to right: back row: Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski (Dorje) in brown T-shirt, khenpo Dhawa Shanbo in red monk robe, Ram Bomjon, Kim Nguyen (US), Budha Lama (red robed monk), Ivy Jugoa (The Netherlands), Michael Leon (Jyampa Dorje) red robed monk with glasses, front row: second left Andrea Good (Japan), Catherine (not involved, according to her own words tried to convince them not to harm me). Source: Bomjon’s former website. 

Above: khenpo Dhawa Shanbo who was present at both of the kidnapping and tortures that Bomjon did to me, but did not behave like a Buddhist monk should behave. Convinced by Bomjon that I was  ‘witch”, khenpo enjoyed to see how Bomjon was hitting me to blood and bruises during the midnight beating. he red-robed monks around Bomjon all behaved like criminals, without the slightest mercy or compassion, though every day the ha been chanting mantras about Maitri and compassion. by wearing a monk robe and harming people, they had desecrated and blasphemed Buddhism. Source: Bomjon’s website.

I consider this extremely cruel, inhuman and against any law and ethical rules of humanity, when a group calling itself “spiritual” is planning how to further harm a victim of brutal beatings,  hostage chained to a tree 3 months and a victim of sexual abuse. I am requesting the police, human right agencies and Government to announce that Ram Bomjon and his cult is NOT a religion, does not respect any religious rules, any ethics and any compassion with human beings! They are misusing the traditional trust in religions that people have, to do criminal acts! He Government should not allow them to call themselves ‘Dharma” and “religion”, because they are exactly the opposite. They are in practice a Satanist group which has only one program: to harm, slowly and painfully, as many people as possible, and do not face the law. The project of Ram Bomjon is to blaspheme all religions, to associate torture, rape and violent harms with his so-called “pujas” and create a desecrating energy which would decay religious traditions from inside.

When I was going to be released, Darshan ,always acting on the orders of Bomjon (going to him to consult how further torture me) created further terrible psychological terror in me during the last days . He stopped to beat me about a week before the release, so that no one could see I ha fresh wounds

Above image: One of Darshan Subba Limbu’s name and face metamorphosis, after he was known as the rapists and torturer in 2012. Source: Facebook

Above image: Another name change of Darshan Subba Limbu. He received residence in the UK, even if he was a criminal. Source: Facebook

The release

But Darshan came a few days before my release (24 March, 2012)  with papers and told that I must write a “suicide letter” and confess that I was disturbing Bomjon and did black magic against him. I told him that I was not going to do that, because I was not interested in suicide, and also that I never disturbed Bomjon’s meditation, that t was a lie. I also never did any black magic, because I was Yogi and deeply religious  consider it a defamation campaign what Bomjon did against me, accusing me of lies He did the same accusations against many of his victims.

I only agreed to write something in the sense that my presence in Halkhoriya might have disturbed Bomjon, but I did not do anything bad to him and never went to his private places which were forbidden to us, foreigners. It is now clear why there had been s many restrictions where we were allowed to go and where not: because Bomjon had been apparently keeping hostages and torturing them regularly, it s most probably even during 2011 when I was staying in Halkhoriya as a volunteer supporter  – 3 months myself. If some follower broke his restrictions, he or she could have found out that he was torturing people in his jungle

But I myself had great respect to him and never broke those restrictions I never went inside his forbidden areas But Darshan was forcing me to write those suicide letters again and again, and give my signature t was clear to me that they wanted to kill me and then show it as a suicide. I wrote some texts (my hand was also very weak, but already healed in a crooked way) and gave some signature, but there was nothing about suicide.

Then Darshan disappeared and did not come a few days, giving me the feeling that all about my release was a lie again . I did not believe in anyone in Bomjon’s circle . Everyone of them were lying

The one day Darshan appeared at my place and told I would be released He brought icy cold water in a bucket and poured on me, with a dirty soap, and while I had my clothes on me, he “washed” me a bit, but it was rather just making me wet It was very cold, end of March only, I the shadow of the jungle trees. He left me there, on chains, soaked in water many hours and I was shivering from cold  the he arrived with Dorje and Budha lama and Dorje unchained me with his keys. The brought me to the Maitri Puja, and it seemed they let me free, but in reality I did not have power to walk on my feet, as my muscles had degraded during 3 months of not standing up and not walking.

Above: Followers who had been present at Bomjon’s Maitri Puja 2012, during which he was keeping me and Mata Ani tied in the jungle, just a few meters from this painting. On the left can be seen Dorje (blue T-shirt), with Nil Bahadur Thing (local BSDS commitee chief), Darshan turned his back (in striped sweater), Jas bahadur Waiba (on the right edge, in black clothes with white badge on neck), Kishore Sherchand (in red shirt behind Waiba), Shyangbo Dong (raising his hands), and Kim, Ivy, Bal Hari Rai, Andrea Good,Jana Klepkova. Ram Kumar (just behind Waiba), local BSDS member had once walked towards my torture place in the jungle. Source: Facebook

Although the Nepali police claims in the media that they had “rescued” me, it is totally untrue I did NOT see any policeman at the time of my release, no one came to me to protect me. I was just left to stay in the Maitri Puja, where there was a crowd of followers and I was confused what to do. Waiba’s two sons Suman and Uman, had been filming me on their video camera, without offering any help. Later  asked Semyon Shekovtsov and Andrea Good to bring me out of Halkhoriya, to Piluwa, where Waiba’s daughter-in-law was my friend But Waiba did not allow it. So  asked them to bring me to Simara’s lama Hotel, where I used to be a paying guest before, of Krishna meme and Binu lama. An Indian devotee had his car there, Semyon and Andrea came  with me sitting in the car. Tomasz (Dorje), my torturer during the 3 months, also wanted to go, but I was shouting and crying and got panicked that he would re-kidnap me again from the jungle road, so I told I am not going if Dorje is there

They brought me to lama Hotel where I slept one night and ate some food. The next morning Tcheku lama who was fighting for my release (according to his words) arrived and invited me to his house on the road to the monastery where I used to stay before kidnapping. I was inside his house, waiting for food, because they told they would give me lunch, when a big police van arrived and I already understood that they came to take me away. I cannot even describe how terrorized I was again, still extremely weak and full of suffering and fear, and now I knew the suffering continued! They did not give me even a single day of freedom after 3 months on chain!

I tried to sneak out the house through the back door while Tcheku lama was discussing something with the police (the amount of money they gave him?), and asked some locals to let me in to hide, but as I looked like a ruin, very malnourished, dirty and without shoes, no one opened their doors to help me. I walked through the field behind Simara and got to the road where the police came towards me to catch me . They did not harm me physically and did not hold me, as it was obvious that my condition was enough to not to be able to escape I knew that they were going to bring me to jail, because before my release Darshan told me “you are not going to be free after our release, but we arrange that you will get to jail”.  Knew that Bomjon had many political supporters, Mani Lama and others, and a lot of money to bribe police, so anything he wanted they fulfill. Bomjon’s is the most powerful mafia in Nepal!

Above image: Mani Lama (ex-health minister) made a press conference in Kathmandu after my release, lying that I was there enjoying my stay in a tent, he did not tell that I was tortured, my hands fracture, sexually abused. He justified Bomjon holding me there against my will 3 months to the media. Source: Avenues TV Nepal, YouTube, “Ram Bomjon kidnapping a Nepali and foreign woman”.

The police group, led by Bohara, brought me to the other Lama Hotel (not that of Krishna meme) and interrogated me for hours, they ordered food for me, but it was not enough to regain my powers after 3 months on chains. Bohara was pressuring me to immediately give a police report against Bomjon, but I was still very terrorized of Bomjon and his endless power in Nepal, and did not believe that I would be safe if I started to speak out This very same police did NOT arrive even once to rescue me while I was in the jungle 3 months, so how could I trust them?

They went angry and told in revenge that I would be then jailed I immigration Lama Tcheku was with me, but he did not help me to get out of jail, and cooperated with the police. I considered that betrayal.

The description of how the police and immigration dealt with me is below:

Police and immigration office did not treat me as a victim of crime but detained me and terrorized me further

 

 

Above image: This is how ruined I looked right after the release from Bomjon’ torture. The photo was made by Kantipur journalist Niranjan Kunwar in the Immigration Detention room. The many bags behind me are not mine: I had been kept in the small (around 20 m2) detention room together with about 50 Nepalese women who had visa problems! They had returned from abroad wit fake visas due to cheaters in visa offices, and they had lots of luggage. The majority of my own bags and things inside them had not been returned to me by Bomjon, after the release. In this state, still unable to change my clothes, take a proper shower, without shoes and with broken hands and malnourished, I was left untreated. I was extremely terrorized by Bomjon. Source: Niranjan Kunwar, Kantipur. 

The next day after my release Bomjon had sent on me the Nepali Police, with the report that I did not have a Visa. Apart from the real overstay, I obviously overstayed my Visa also during the 3 months captivity as Bomjon’s hostage, because I was chained by him to a tree in his jungle, and could not leave to arrange my Visa. The police did not treat me as a victim of three months torture on chains, sexual assaults, regular beating. I did not even manage to wash myself properly after 3 months on chain, being repeatedly sexually assaulted there, I was barefoot, and the police did not provide me with any medical care, even if both of my wrists had been broken, I was extremely weak and malnourished, had bruises and wounds all over my body and was terrorized by the 3-months torture.

In this state the police (led by a higher official Bohara) brought me to Kathmandu and let me locked in the Immigration Detention. As my laptop and phone had been stolen by Bomjon and his men, as well as my personal notes and address book, European ID card and dioptric glasses, I was totally unable to contact anyone in Europe and ask for help. I had been terrorized by the immigration officials that if I did not pay 2600 USD (originally they asked for more, but finally they settled at this amount), until Monday, they would put me to a proper jail for 4 years! I did not get any lawyer, any medical person that I could consult my situation with!

Above image: my Acer netbook computer (called in Nepal laptop) stolen by Bomjon and his followers during the 2012 hostage holding. The photo was made by one of his then followers, Nika Lapkovskaya in Kathmandu. Everyone knew my laptop was stolen by Bomjon, but no follower thought that this is something wrong! Source: Nika Lapkovskaya, private gift. 

This was an inhuman treatment by the police, because I myself was Bomjon’s victim, not a criminal, and just when I was starting to try to arrange my Visa overstay from June 2011, I had been kidnapped by Bomjon and forced to stay in Nepal against my will 3 months! The police should have taken into consideration that I had been a victim of crime and stayed on chains in a jungle 3 months. But instead they had calculated the money to be paid including the 3 months as hostage!

Bomjon had been not prosecuted, not even interrogated for what he did to me and Mata Ani, a Nepalese woman he also held captive parallel with me, somewhere in the jungle. When she was allegedly released, she did not trust the police to take her and sent them away. So there are no news about her, if she is alive after her release by Bomjon.

Relevant articles:

Repost of a scary witness account

Ram Bomjon’s bloody violence continues in Halkhoriya

Did Ram Bomjon’s attendants torture a woman to death?

Ram Bomjon’s misogynist dharma

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