OPERATION KHUKRI : True Story Behind the Indian Army's Most Successful Mission as Part of the United Nations
Language: English Publication details: Haryana Penguin Random House 2021/01/01Edition: 1Description: 201ISBN:- 9780143453369
- Indian Army
- Operation Khukri
- Most Successful Mission
- Peacekeeping forces
- East Indian - Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone- West Africa
- Operation Khukri - Indian Army- Successful Mission
- History - Civil War, 1991-2002 -Personal narratives, East Indian
- Major General Rajpal Punia
- United Nations Peacekeeping Mission-Sierra Leone
- 355.092 RAJ/OP
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The year was 2000. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, had been ravaged by years of civil strife. With the intervention of the United Nations, two companies of the Indian Army were deployed in Kailahun as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
Soon, the peaceful mission turned into a war-like standoff between Major Punia’s company and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Kailahun, with the Indian peacekeepers cordoned off for seventy-five days without supplies. The only way home was by laying down their weapons.
Operation Khukri was one of Indian Army’s most successful international missions, and this book is a first-hand account by Major Rajpal Punia, who, after three months of impasse and failed diplomacy, orchestrated the operation, surviving the ambush of the RUF in a prolonged jungle warfare twice, and returning with all 233 soldiers standing tall.
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