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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by jbritto on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @10:57AM (#11073532)
A simple search would lead you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Raahat_(India)
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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by adidash on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:51AM (#11074037)
Air India also played a major role in the 1990 evacuations from Kuwait. Considered to be the largest civilian evacuation, airlifting 170,000 Indians stranded in Kuwait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_airlift_of_Indians_from_K...

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Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports by lhopki01 on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:46AM (#11073982)
So people went to a port or airport. It's not really a rescue as much as just having a few more planes picking people up than usual.
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