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Harbakhash Singh, born 10/4/1920, from Kanech, Ludhiana, Punjab, India; lance corporal, "Transport Company", 3rd Indian Motor Brigade; taken captive at Tobruk in 1941, escaped to Switzerland in 1943 https://www.recherche.bar.admin.ch/recherche/link/de/archiv/einheit/5163180 #WWII #IndianArmy

pic 1: https://bmarchives.org/items/show/79992
pic 2: Dorfarchiv #Adelboden #DAAdelboden

As The Government Failed Manipur, Once Peace-Loving People Picked Up Weapons, Fought & Died

The Manipur government’s failure to end the ethnic violence has caused ordinary Meitei and Kuki—a poet, a university student, an ironsmith—to pick up arms and die because they felt they had to defend their people.

https://article-14.com/post/as-the-government-failed-manipur-once-peace-loving-people-picked-up-weapons-fought-died--650d11096769a

#manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #displacement #ManipurGovt #BirenSingh #BJP #ManipurRapes #NarendraModi #IndianArmy #CRPF #BSF #AssamRifles #IndianArmedForces #india

Kashmir letters cast doubt on claims Nehru blundered by agreeing ceasefire

Exclusive: papers kept classified for decades reveal India’s first PM acted on advice from most senior general.

#kashmir #history #IndoPakWar #JawaharlalNehru #nehru #pakistan #GenSirFrancisRobertRoyBucher #IndianArmy #article370abrogation #NarendraModi #modi #AmitShah #militarisation #india

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/08/kashmir-letters-cast-doubt-claims-nehru-blundered-agreeing-ceasefire