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020			_a9780143453369
037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_a355.092 _bRAJ/OP
100			_aRajpal Punia
245			_aOPERATION KHUKRI : True Story Behind the Indian Army's Most Successful Mission as Part of the United Nations
250			_a1
260			_aHaryana _bPenguin Random House _c2021/01/01
300			_g201
500			_aThe 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.
650			_aIndian Army.
650			_aOperation Khukri
650			_aMost Successful Mission
650			_a Peacekeeping forces,
650			_aEast Indian - Sierra Leone.
650			_aSierra Leone- West Africa
650			_aOperation Khukri - Indian Army- Successful Mission
650			_a History - Civil War, 1991-2002 -Personal narratives, East Indian
650			_aMajor General Rajpal Punia
650			_aUnited Nations Peacekeeping Mission-Sierra Leone
700			_aDamini Punia
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