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Reopening of Stilwell Road to China sought

GUWAHATI: Thousands of people, on Friday, marched along the historic Stilwell Road demanding the reopening of the 1,079-mile (1,700 km) route linking the northeast to China via Myanmar, witnesses said.

Organisers said more than 10,000 people shouted slogans and carried placards along the road built by U.S. Army General Joe Stilwell between 1942-1944 to send supplies to Chinese forces. "The symbolic march ... is the beginning of a mass movement to pressure New Delhi about the need to facilitate [the] reopening of the Stilwell Road for border trade with South Asia," Shankar Prasad Rai, president of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), told AFP over telephone. — AFP

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