Sitting at his combat post dug in the snow, soldier Sangay, 27, scans the horizon scrawled with shrubs charred by the cold which stretches out before him. Tanks, drones or infantrymen, he awaits the enemy threat. Since the start of his shift, he has only seen a little white rabbit pass by. Sangay is amused, but his pensive eyes tell something else. They say the hasty departure from his native Tibet, with the police on his trail. They talk about his flight across Asia, the greedy smugglers, the odd jobs, the nights on the street... If he had not had the audacity to want to learn Tibetan and to express his opinion against the government which forbidden to do so, today he would be a mountain guide in the Himalayas. For now, the political refugee, now French, is a soldier in the 7th battalion of Alpine hunters.
For several days, he has been participating, like 430 of his brothers in arms from the 27th mountain infantry brigade (BIM), in a land phase of Nordic Response...
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