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'Kargil was a learning experience'
Updated On: 05 August, 2009 08:12 AM IST | | Vinod Kumar Menon
Says Maj Gopal Mitra who survived Operation Vijay but lost his vision during counter-insurgency operation in J&K. He is now a global disability activist
Says Maj Gopal Mitra who survived Operation Vijay but lost his vision during counter-insurgency operation in J&K. He is now a global disability activist
Before losing his eyesight during a counter-insurgency operation, Major Gopal Mitra had seen one of the most gory pictures of the Kargil war.
A soldier carrying his intestines with splinters in his body to the nearest base hospital and another who lifted his left hand that was severed from his body after coming under an explosives attack, in search of paramedics.
Commissioned into the 15th Mahar in June 1995, Maj Mitra's assignments took him to one of the most difficult terrains in Assam where he fought ULFA militants and to Jammu Kashmir where the Pakistan-supported terrorist groups were particularly targeting Indian troops.
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