Special Frontier Force
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The Special Frontier Force are a special forces unit of the Indian military. It has about 12,000 personnel, with virtually all the enlisted men being Tibetans, and the officer corps being partly Indian and partly Tibetan. The Commander is normally a serving Major-General of the Indian Army. It was originally formed by the India's intelligence agencies for the sole purpose of sabotage and espionage beyond enemy lines.
The Special Frontier Force that was established in 1959 has since grown in proportion and range of deployment including paratrooping operations and mountain warfare, as well as covert operations. Popularly called the "Vikas" forces by the conventional army, the men and women of the Special Frontier Force saw action in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 were it played key role in the liberation of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, as well as in the Kargil War. Many of these brave Tibetans who laid lives for India were for the first time officially recognised by India by awarding in the same year, many medals of valour, on India's Republic Day Celebration in New Delhi.
More recently, SFF is believed to have been involved in efficiently clearing the terrorist training bases of the Assamese militant organisation United Liberation Front of Asom in operations conducted in the southern forests of Bhutan, with the permission of the government of Bhutan. However, the leader of ULFA, Paresh Barua, continues to enjoy sanctuary in Bangladesh.
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