Posted on 02/02/2011 1:03:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
Whoa...holy cow! Every once in a while someone in the world comes along and reminds us what a true hero really looks like. A 35 year-old Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha was riding a train when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a massive robbery. 40 men armed with knives, swords and guns stormed the train and began robbing the passengers.
Bishnu kept his peace while the gang snatched cell phones, jewelry and cash from other riders. But then, the thugs grabbed the 18 year-old girl sitting next to him and forcefully stripped her naked. Before the bandits could rape the poor girl in front of her helpless parents, Bishnu decided he had enough.
“The girl cried for help, saying ´You are a soldier, please save a sister´,” Shrestha recalled. “I prevented her from being raped, thinking of her as my own sister.”
Here's the part of the story that makes you cheer. He pulls out a kukri (i.e. a knife) and proceeds to kill 3 of them, injure 8 of them, and causes the rest to flee. During the battle, he suffered a severe knife injury to his left hand, from which he's now recovered.
(Excerpt) Read more at logiccool.com ...
That wasn’t a lone Nepali soldier...that was a Gurkha. Might as well have had a full mechanized Platoon backed by artillery support.
Same effect.
Have Gurkha, will travel.
“Alas, the Ghurkas are upon you”>
The only mistake that Beck has made this week is including India in the Caliphate. They only took about half of India 400 years ago, and they won’t be nearly as successful this time around against a modern, well armed armed, nuclear India that doesn’t have the leftist-imposed PC restrictions on dealing with Muslim scum that America faces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji (the Indian version of Charles, King of the Franks)
From an earlier thread:
The soldier is from the Indian Army, and not Nepal, as the title erroneously seems to suggest.
Gurkha Khukri Knife
Bishnu Shrestha, a brave Gurkha soldier in the Indian Army who defeated 40 train robbers while returning home after voluntary retirement, is going to be awarded with the Sourya Chakra bravery award and the Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha medals, during the Indian Republic Day celebrations on January 26th.
That said:
After 200 years, UK army set to axe Gurkha Regiment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2579861/posts
LONDON: The world-famous Gurkha Regiment, part of the British army for almost 200 years, may be among those axed unless the ministry of defence’s demands for more money to fund the replacement of Trident nuclear missile submarines are answered.
Last night, hopes for extra funding were fading as chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander rejected demands for extra money from Tory defence secretary Liam Fox and insisted the £20 billion cost of replacing Trident had to be met fully by the MoD, The Observer reported.
Quoting an expert, the report said the increasing costs of running the regiment following actress Joanna Lumley’s high-profile campaign last year to improve their rights, added to the sense that the “writing is on the wall” for the Brigade of Gurkhas, which has 3,640 members.
The Gurkhas have been an integral part of the army since 1815, when the British East India Company signed a peace deal allowing it to recruit Nepalese soldiers.
Legends of Gurkha Bravery
Gurkhas’ Reputation for Bravery Precedes Them
It was a series of bloody conflicts fought in the great hill ranges of northeastern India in the early 19th century that saw big battle losses and grudging admiration on both sides for their respective foes.
Since 1812, the British East India Company, rapidly gaining ground across the subcontinent and eager to tame the tribes along the Himalayan foothills, had fought a series of battles against the fierce Nepali tribes.
But in 1816, the Nepali defense of the hill fortress of Kalunga in the Himalayan foothills so impressed the British that in the terms of a peace treaty signed with Nepali King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the British shrewdly included a clause under which the Gurkhas could serve in the East India Company’s army.
That was the start of a long, illustrious military alliance between the British and the Gurkhas, a term loosely used to describe men of Nepal who serve as soldiers in the armies of Nepal, India or Britain.
Drawn mostly from the Magar, Gurung, Rai, Limbu and Sunwar hill tribes — tribes the British considered fit fighters — the term “Gurkha” is an Anglicization of the Gorkha district, the birthplace of King Prithvi Narayan Shah, who is considered the father of modern Nepal.
Ayo Gurkhali!
With their battle cry “Ayo Gurkhali!” — “Here come the Gurkhas!” — the hardy Nepali hillsmen gained such a reputation as fighters that stories of enemies fleeing their positions upon hearing rumors of their advance abound.
During the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857, when local Muslim sepoys revolted against their British officers, a rumor running through the northern Indian town of Simla that the Gurkhas had joined the sepoys so frightened the resident British that they panicked and fled the town, some men even abandoning their wives and children.
But the Gurkhas stayed loyal to the British and did not join the mutinying sepoys, passing their first test of loyalty.
Many years later, after Argentina’s surrender to Britain in the 1982 Falklands War, Argentine troops told reporters that rumors of the Gurkhas slitting the throats of 40 Argentine soldiers in single strokes and of Gurkhas jumping into enemy foxholes with live grenades gave them the jitters and seriously shattered their morale.
It’s hard to tell where the legends of Gurkha ferocity spring from and how much of it is true. Many of their deeds have been recorded in official military dispatches, but many more have been gleaned from diaries of British officers through the centuries, and historians argue that many of these entries may have been liberally embellished.
Blood Thirst of the Blade
Certainly the most pervasive myth of Gurkha ferocity fans from their famed wielding of the kukri, or the curved Himalayan knife.
Legend has it that once a Gurkha unsheathes his kukri, he must draw blood with it. When a Gurkha unsheathes his weapon in a noncombative situation, he must then nick himself to satisfy the “blood thirst” of the blade.
With a motto that says, “Kaphar hunnu bhanda marnu ramro” — “Better dead than live like a coward” — Gurkhas are known to be brutal in battle, but they can also be charming and delightfully childish in peace.
During their World War I operations in the Arabian Peninsula, British officers recorded the Gurkhas’ delight when they encountered the sea and camels for the first time.
When a Mule Kicks a Gurkha
Stories of the toughness of Gurkha skulls also do the rounds, with one story going so far as to claim that if a mule kicks a Gurkha’s head, the Gurkha may suffer a headache, but the mule will certainly go lame.
But among all the legends surrounding the Gurkhas, the ones that have the greatest ring of truth are stories of the Nepali fighters’ discipline and literal performance of orders from military superiors.
One particular diary entry talks about how an Indian army doctor once went up to a British officer and told him that a wounded Gurkha would surely die unless he displayed some “will to live.”
The officer, the story goes, stormed into the hospital room and barked the order: “Live!” The wounded Gurkha obeyed.
Corrected link for the story.
Corrected link for the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDieXp2p2A&feature=player_embedded
Otherwise, good story!
The legend continues that he told Bappa that he and his people would henceforth be called Gurkhas, the disciples of the Guru Gorkhanath, and their bravery would become world famous. He then instructed Bappa Rawal, and his Gurkhas to stop the advance of the Muslims, who were invading Afghanistan (which at that time was a Hindu/Buddhist nation). Bappa Rawal took his Gurkhas and liberated Afghanistan — originally named Gandhara, from which the present day Kandahar derives its name. He and his Gurkhas stopped the initial Islamic advance of the 8th century in the Indian subcontinent.
Does he now have to hunt down those that escaped to finish the job?
The guy’s getting a lot of publicity to the chagrin of the jackal that survived.
>> The legend continues that he told Bappa...
Epic, global confluence.
It’s getting weirder by the day.
HOORAY Bishnu Shrestha! Thanks to all posters. Informative/educational.
Islam is EVIL.
This guy is impressive beyiond words.
Why didn’t he just call the police. LOL.
Don’t mess with a Gurkha! They know how to use those big blades and were some of the Brit’s best troops.
Just think of the good he could have done if he would have been armed with a Hi-cap pistol. Even better a carbine.
A man I once knew was in the Korean War, and encountered some Gurka troops fighting as part of the British forces. He asked to see a Gurka’s knife, and after he had examined it, the Gurka drew it across his own forearm, making a noticeable cut, and then returned the knife to its sheath.
The Gurka explained that the knife must never be returned to its berth without tasting blood.
A story the Liberals hate, a man protecting a woman with a weapon!
I brought both my daughters in, had them read the logicool article, and told them THIS is the kind of boyfriend they should be looking for.
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