The World - News from Aug. 7, 1988
The leader of the Gurkha separatist movement formally announced the end of the group’s violent two-year-old insurgency, the United News of India said. “The Gurkhaland movement has ended,” the news agency quoted Subhash Ghising as saying in Darjeeling in the West Bengal state. Gurkhas, who are Indian citizens of Nepalese descent, live mainly in the Darjeeling region in northeastern India. Ghising’s Gurkha National Liberation Front had been seeking a separate state. He made his announcement after returning from New Delhi, where details were worked out on an agreement under which the Gurkhas are to receive limited administrative control of the Darjeeling region.
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