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Firearms Permitted on Indo-Tibetan Border

June 23, 2020;

Following clashes with China, India has amended rules of engagement for its troops on the Indo-Tibetan border, reportedly “empowering field commanders to sanction the use of firearms under ‘extraordinary’ circumstances”. For decades the two sides have agreed not to bring weapons within two kilometres of the border. The decision comes after 20 Indian soldiers were killed after being “attacked with iron rods, nail-studded clubs and rocks wrapped in barbed wire”.

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