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Crying in spasms in front of a BBC News Nepali camera, Dil Bahadur Tamang says he can vividly see his beloved tree in his dreams. “What had this tree done anyway?” Tamang asks. “[They] could have negotiated a deal with us!” he adds. “As soon as I get out of my house, I see this mess.”
Last June, Dil Bahadur’s family’s Bodhichitta tree was sawed down to the ground at midnight by a group of masked intruders who arrived at his house with guns, homemade bombs, and a chain saw. The tree growing in Dil Bahadur’s backyard was believed by many to be one of the most valuable of its kind in Nepal—and one that had previously fetched its owner tens of millions of rupees in cash annually.
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