New Delhi (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Indian
government plans to give military training to groups of
civilians so they can defend themselves from the
incursions by Beijing, thus creating paramilitary troops among people living along the Chinese border. Anonymous sources in the Ministry of the Interior report that the goal is
to prepare these people - even
giving them weapons - to assist security forces
already operative in the South-East
and in Jammu and Kashmir, "in case of emergencies".
The decision taken by the executive
comes after a raid carried out by China in
the area of Lake Pangong in Ladakh.
The policy adopted by the Government of
newly elected premier Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya
Janata Party
(Hindu ultra-nationalist BJP), is in stark contrast to
that adopted by the previous Congress
government, which had prevented the formation of any civilian paramilitary movement along the border.