Re: Maoists and monasteries
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Posted by crd on January 29, 2004 at 04:39:55:

In Reply to: Re: Maoists and monasteries posted by Per on January 28, 2004 at 23:54:37:

: No, the royal army, thought they would disarm them very quickly but failed as they chose to slip over the mountains to India. Militarily it was considered humiliating for the army. I think lack of acclimatization was a key factor.

Strange. I've never heard of that before. People in Nepal have often told me about the massacre of the Khampa warriors.

I know, however, that for some time Tibetans were being trained in Ladakh (I saw a photograph in Dharamsala of the Dalai Lama giving his blessing to Tibetan paratroopers!.. post-1974). After that, they were trained in Garhwal.

Christophe



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