What is the Importance of India's Special Frontier Force on the border of China?

Posted on 3rd Sep 2020 by rohit kumar

Nema Tenzin, the Company Leader of the Development Regiment of India's Special Frontier Force, died on Saturday night during a military campaign in the area along the southern bank of Pangong Lake in Ladakh.

 

Officer Nima Tenzin's body wrapped in a tricolor was brought to Choglamasar village, six kilometers from Leh city, on Tuesday morning.

 

According to Namdol Lagayari, Member of Parliament-in-Exile of Tibet, preparations for his funeral are going on here according to Tibeto-Buddhist traditions.

 

According to Namdol Lagayari, once an independent-country but now a "Neema Tenzin of China's territory Tibet, was the company leader in the development regiment of the Special Frontier Force (SFF) of India, and two days before the Indian contingent and the Chinese People's Liberation Army He died in a clash in the middle Pangong Lake area. "

 

Another member of the SFF was also injured in Saturday's incident. The Indian Army has not made any comment on this matter.

 

Yes, on August 31, the Indian Army had mentioned an incident in a statement. According to the Indian Army, in this incident, the Chinese army tried to change the status quo by doing provocative military activities in East Ladakh.

 

The statement issued by Indian Army spokesman Colonel Aman Anand said that the movement of the Chinese troops on the southern bank of Pangong Lake was stopped by the Indian troops before it started and weakened our position and the situation on the ground China's attempt to change was thwarted.

 

What is SFF

Former Indian Army colonel and defense affairs expert Ajay Shukla has mentioned company leader Neema Tenzin and Special Frontier Force in his blog. But at the same time, it has been said that handing over the body of company leader Neema Tenzin to the family, the incident was instructed to be kept secret.

 

The special contingent created in 1962 is not part of the SFF Indian Army but part of the Indian intelligence agency RAW ie Research and Analysis Wing.

 

According to a report published in the English newspaper Hindustan Times, the functioning of this unit is so secret that even the army does not know what it is doing.

 

It reports directly to the Prime Minister through the Director-General of Security; Therefore its 'stories of valor' cannot reach the common people.

 

On the advice of IB founder-director, Bhola Nath Mallik and second world war soldier and later Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik, India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru thought of preparing a contingent of Tibetan guerrillas that would deal with the Chinese in the dangerous region of the Himalayas. Take iron.

 

The first inspector general of the SFF, Major General (Retd) Sujan Singh Uban, was prepared with the intention of entering into the Chinese border and carrying out intelligence operations in the event of war with India.

 

Sujan Singh Uban was the commander of 22 Mountain Regiment of the British Indian Army during the Second World War. For this reason, some people also called the SFF as 'Establishment 22'.

 

SFF has been involved in many operations

People of Tibetan origin in Ladakh, Sikkim, etc., are already part of the modern Indian Army.

 

Directly under the Prime Minister's supervision and made part of Intelligence Bureau ie IB, the SFF is now under RAW and its headquarters is in Chakrata, Uttarakhand.

 

In the initial stages, India has been used by the trainers of the Americans and the Intelligence Bureau of India to use the SFF in Bangladesh's war, Kargil, Operation Blue Star, and many other military operations.

 

Many believe that those involved are the successors of the Khampa rebels of the 1950s who rose against the Chinese attack on Tibet.

 

The Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibet, had to flee to India in 1959 at the age of 23 after he came under occupation, after which a large population of Tibetans are inhabited in the northeast, Delhi, Himachal, and many other areas of India.

 

There are many of these people who, like Neema Tenzin and Tenzin Lönden, form part of the SFF.