India’s deployment of paratrooper commandos of Tibetan origin on the Ladakh-China border came to light with the accidental death of Company Leader Nyima Tenzin. His colleague Tenzin Londhen was grievously wounded. Both belong to the Vikas battalion of the Special Frontier Force (SFF). While the irony of facing Tibetans-in-exile in border skirmishes with India is unlikely to be lost on Beijing, was the deployment of the SFF against the Peoples’ Liberation Army only a matter of military exigency or did it signal a shift in India’s Tibet policy?
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