2024-01-10 13:39:07
Published10. January 2024, 2:39 p.m
Nepal: “Buddha Boy” arrested: Did he abuse minors?
Police arrested Ram Bahadur Bamjan at his home near Kathmandu as he tried to escape. He is accused of sexual abuse.
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Ram Bahadur Bamjan was arrested in Nepal on charges of sexual assault. (Pictured is 15-year-old Bamjan in meditation in 2005)
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Bamjan is also known as “Buddha Boy”. As a guru, thousands of followers gathered around him at times. (recording from 2006)
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Since 2010, there have been repeated reports regarding Ram Bamjan and his Western followers, who are said to have committed violence, robbery and deprivation of liberty.
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A revered guru was arrested in Nepal.
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Ram Bhadur Bamjan is accused, among other things, of sexual abuse of a minor.
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Reports of crimes committed by Bamjan and his followers have existed for a long time.
That happened
A man revered by many Nepalese as the “Buddha Boy” has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Ram Bahadur Bamjan was taken into custody at his home in a suburb of Kathmandu on Tuesday evening, police said on Wednesday. The suspect tried to escape by jumping out of a window.
He is accused of that
In addition to the accusation of sexual assault, Bamjan is also suspected in connection with the disappearance of at least four of his followers from camps he ran. According to police, tens of thousands of dollars worth of Nepalese currency and foreign exchange were seized from his home. The crimes he is accused of are said to have occurred in southern Nepal.
This is the “Buddha Boy”
Ram Bahadur Bamjan (born 1990) is considered by many Nepalis to be the reincarnation of the Buddha – that is, Siddhartha Gautama, who founded Buddhism. It is reported that Bamjan would meditate for months without water or food. In 2007 he is said to have retreated to an underground bunker in Nepal in order to meditate there for three years – according to his own statements without eating, drinking or sleeping.
Since 2010, there have been repeated reports regarding Ram Bamjan and his partly Western followers, who are said to have committed violence, robbery and deprivation of liberty once morest villagers, family members and journalists. The group has also been accused of sexual abuse, especially of foreign followers. Bamjan and his followers justified this by saying that the women were witches, as CNN reported.
Although allegations of sexual and physical abuse by Bamjan supporters and Bamjan himself have been circulating for some time, he most recently ran camps in the south of the country. Thousands of his followers lived there.
With material from the DPA
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