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What is the ethnic background of the people on strike in Darjeeling, India?

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What is the ethnic background of the people on strike in Darjeeling, India?

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The strike was organized earlier this year by an ethnic Gurkha group. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Gorkha People’s Liberation Front) is demanding a new state — Ghurkaland — within India to protect the rights and interests of the region’s 650,000 Gurkhas, or ethnic Nepalis, that inhabit the hills of eastern India and neighboring Nepal. The group’s leader insists that the movement is a peaceful one, based on the principles of Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi. Sources: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4158452.