"Are you prepared to give up your mission so easily? Did your people suffer in exile for 2,000 years just to become like any other nation?"
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Orde Charles Wingate
Major-General Orde Charles Wingate DSO (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944) was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
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