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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Indar Jit Rikhye<br />
| image = Indar Jit Rikhye 1965-02-03 (cropped).jpg<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1920|07|30|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British India]]<br/><small>(now [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]])</small><br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|5|21|1920|7|30|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]], [[Virginia]], U.S.<br />
}}<br />
'''Indar Jit Rikhye''' (30 July 1920 &ndash; 21 May 2007) was a major general in the [[Indian Army]] who served as military adviser to the [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] and [[U Thant]] in the 1960s. As military advisor, he was responsible for operations in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]], [[West Irian]], [[Yemen]], and [[Cyprus]]. Special assignments included advisor to the Secretary-General during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], chief of the UN Observer Mission to the [[Dominican Republic]], and participant in the Spinelli-Rikhye Mission to [[Jordan]] and [[Israel]] in 1965.<br />
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In May 1967, General Rikhye was the commander of the [[United Nations Emergency Force]] in the [[Sinai Peninsula]] when Egypt deployed its own troops in that territory and demanded that Rikhye withdraw all his troops. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complied with the withdrawal, precipitating the [[Six-Day War]] the following month.<br />
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From 1970 to 1990, he was president of the [[International Peace Academy]], a New York-based organization that promotes the settlement of armed conflicts by training negotiators, diplomats and military personnel in peacekeeping.<br />
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Gen. Rikhye (pronounced Rickey) had a distinguished 30-year career in the Indian Army. He attended the [[Indian Military Academy]], [[Dehradun]] and was commissioned in December 1940. He served with the [[6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse)]] during World War II. In 1947 he saw action in [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] commanding 'B' Squadron [[7th Light Cavalry]]. He went on to command the [[Deccan Horse]] Apr 1948 - Feb 1951.<br />
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Starting in the late 1950s he was assigned to [[United Nations peacekeeping|U.N. peacekeeping]] units. He was credited with combining great resolve as a coordinator with physical courage.<br />
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General Rikhye is the author of numerous publications including ''The Thin Blue Line: International Peacekeeping and its Future''.<br />
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==References==<br />
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402428.html?nav=hcmodule, Washington Post obituary]<br />
*[http://www.garamchai.com/NRIProfilesRikhye.htm Profile of Gen. Rikhye]<br />
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/world/americas/28iht-obits.3.5899403.html?_r=1 Indar Jit Rikhye, NY Times obituary]<br />
*[http://www.economist.com/node/9298508 Economist obituary]<br />
*[http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Rikhye/rikhye-con0.html Regents of the University of California]<br />
*[http://indiequill.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/rip-indar-jit-rikhye/ indiequill obituary]<br />
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