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French, Italian troops seek training in India

8/21/2004 4:30:00 PM GMT

France and Italy have sought India's permission to train their troops in its anti-terror school.

Source: AFP

Eleven nations, including France and Italy, have sought India's permission to train their troops in guerrilla warfare in the jungles of India's revolt-hit northeast, an Indian army official said.

Established in 1970, the Counter Insurgency Jungle Warfare School in Vairengte in the northeastern state of Mizoram is considered one of the world's best anti-terrorist training institutions.

The anti-terror school, whose motto is to "fight a guerrilla like a guerrilla," was set up after Indian soldiers suffered heavy casualties at the hands of rebels active in India's northeast who are specialized in hit-and-run strikes.

"France, Uzbekistan, Italy, besides some African countries, have made queries ... to get their soldiers trained here," a senior army official at the school told AFP by telephone on Saturday.

The last foreign soldiers who attended the school were U.S. commandos who did three weeks of anti-insurgency combat training with Indian army instructors in April.

India first trained three U.S. army officers in 2001, soon after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

The school, which specializes in combating rural and urban terrorist attacks, has also trained soldiers from Nepal, Nigeria and other countries while Britain has sought instructors' services to establish a similar institute there, the army official said.


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