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General V K Singh Rescued Over 150 Indians From Sudan Civil War And Brought Them Home Safely

byVinay Devnath
16th July 2016
2 minute read

South Sudan has been in a state of civil unrest for the past few days with violent exchanges in the country between the troops of the president and the vice president.

Hundreds of people have been killed, and almost a million people have been displaced as refugees.

In this state of Civil war, many Indians became unsafe in the country, with almost 500 people working over there in different capacities.

Keeping in mind their safety, our Government retrofitted two C-17 military aircraft planes with seats and flew them to South Sudan to evacuate our citizens.

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The operation is called “Sankat Mochan” and is led from the front by MoS External Affairs, General V K Singh.

 

You can see here as he consoles and uplifts the morale of the Indians on board the military aircraft with bolstering words of encouragement.

He flew over to South Sudan himself and personally escorted over 150 Indian civilians back to India.

 

The Ministry of External Affairs wanted to bring in more, but more than 300 people refused to leave, prompting Sushma Swaraj to tweet, pleading them to come home on account of safety.

We hope the Indians who refused to come back take heed to Ms. Swaraj’s pleas to come back home.

The operation is one of the biggest evacuation operations since 2015, when Operation Rahat took place.

 

The evacuated Indians were brought safely to New Delhi, and their onward journies were arranged by Indian Railways and Air India.

 

A huge cheer and a salute of respect for Sushma Swaraj, Gen V K Singh, the Indian Air Force, and the Ministry Of External Affairs for saving Indians from South Sudan!

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