Indar Jit Rikhye,March 26,1990
| dc.contributor.author | Rikhye, I.J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-09T11:07:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-09T11:07:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05-09 | |
| dc.description | The interview was recorded at the Dublin, Ireland,on march 26th, 1990. The Interviewer was James Sutterlin. Indar Jit Rikhye, a major general in the Indian Army who was a critical military adviser to United Nations peacekeepers around the world and then founding president of a research institute devoted to training peacekeepers, died May 21 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 86. The cause was respiratory failure, Bhalinder Rikhye, his son, said. As adviser to two secretaries general, Dag Hammarskjold and U Thant, at the United Nations from 1957 to 1967, Rikhye set up or commanded peacekeeping forces in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. He oversaw the withdrawal of the UN Emergency Force in Gaza and the Sinai in June 1967, when it found itself in the path of the advancing Israel Defense Forces and had all its vehicles wrecked, its communications knocked out and three of its soldiers killed. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/2769 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | The mandate of the UN force | en_US |
| dc.subject | Armament of UN forces | en_US |
| dc.subject | Dag Hammarskjold role | en_US |
| dc.subject | The Katanga operation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Military peace-keeping organization | en_US |
| dc.title | Indar Jit Rikhye,March 26,1990 | en_US |
| dc.type | Recording, oral | en_US |