BANGKOK, Thailand, July 9 (UNHCR) – Bhumika Dhakal, a tall, capable 12-year-old Nepalese refugee girl was sweeping the floor and looking after her three younger sisters when police knocked on the door of their home before breakfast two years ago and carted them away.
"My parents had gone out and told me to clean up," she recalls now from inside Bangkok's crowded Immigration Detention Centre (IDC). "There was also a Sri Lankan woman rounded up. She asked if she could go to the park to get her children before we were taken away. She also told me it was a good idea to take some clothes, so I packed a small bag quickly. My nine-year-old sister was crying but the rest of us, even the two-year-old, just all got into the van quietly.