A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police, paramilitary or military in response to public disorder. In the Indian subcontinent, a long bamboo stick, called a lathi in Bengali, Hindi, Kannada Nepali and Urdu, is used for crowd control, and the expression lathi charge is commonly employed to describe the action.
A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police, paramilitary or military in response to public disorder. In the Indian subcontinent, a long bamboo stick, called a lathi in Bengali, Hindi, Kannada Nepali and Urdu, is used for crowd control, and the expression lathi charge is commonly employed to describe the action.
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