Violent faceoff on China border: One officer, two Indian soldiers dead; casualties on both sides

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Violent faceoff on China border: One officer, two Indian soldiers dead; casualties on both sides
India-China violent faceoff: “During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night (Monday night) with casualties on both sides,” the Army said in an official statement.
Written by Sushant Singh | New Delhi
Updated: June 16, 2020 4:44:13 pm

In the first loss of lives on the disputed India-China border in at least 45 years, the Army has lost one officer and two soldiers in a violent faceoff in the Galwan Valley last night.

“During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night (Monday night) with casualties on both sides,” Army said in an official statement. ...

Tensions between the two armies have been running high on the border since reports of a scuffle between the soldiers of both sides at Pangong Tso (eastern Ladakh) and Naku la (in Sikkim) came in early last month. Both the armies have since mobilized and deployed a large number of soldiers and heavy military equipment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). ...

Indian Express

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China blames the clash on Indian soldiers, accusing them of crossing the border and attacking Chinese personnel. No shots were fired, so apparently the Indians were beaten to death by the Chinese.
AFP:

Indian and Chinese troops in deadly border clash
16 June 2020


Three Indian soldiers were killed in a violent face-off on the Chinese border, the Indian army said Tuesday, following weeks of rising tensions and the deployment of thousands of extra troops from both sides.

Brawls erupt regularly between the two nuclear-armed giants across their disputed 3,500-kilometre (2,200-mile) frontier, but no one has been killed in decades.

But the Indian army said there were "casualties on both sides" in Monday's incident on the Himalayan frontier between China's Tibet and India's region Ladakh, although Beijing made no mention of any -- while laying the blame squarely on Delhi. ...


... India and China have never even agreed on how long their "Line of Actual Control" frontier is, and each side uses different frontier proposals made by Britain to China in the 19th century to back their claims.  ...

Alice Wells, the top US State Department official for South Asia, said last month that China was seeking to upset the regional balance and had to be "resisted".

US President Donald Trump also offered to mediate, but both countries sidestepped the offer.

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WTH is wrong with China? They're bar brawling with everyone right now, the US, India, Russia, the Aussies, Japan, Korea, not to mention all the other lesser powers there.

They ain't good enough to take us all on. They're asking for a humiliation and general all around thumping.

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Death Toll From Border Battle Between China, India Significantly Higher Than Initially Reported
By  Ryan Saavedra
Jun 16th, 2020

Initial reports on the number of soldiers who were killed in a border battle this week between India and communist China suggested that several soldiers were killed. However, as more information becomes available it appears as though dozens of soldiers may have been killed on both sides.

The New York Times was one of the first media outlets to report on the skirmish and said that three Indian soldiers were killed. Reuters reported that, according to an Indian Army official, there were casualties on both sides.

U.S. News & World Report later reported that Indian government officials had told a local publication that 20 Indian soldiers had died in the fighting and that somewhere between 35 and 43 Chinese soldiers were also killed. .... More from Daily Wire

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India says its soldiers were mutilated after being beaten to death by Chinese troops in brutal Himalayan border battle - and reveals the nail-embedded sticks used in brawl

    20 Indians were killed in clash on Monday night, the first deadly conflict with China since 1975
    China said it suffered 43 casualties, but did not specify whether any of its men had been killed in the grisly hand-to-hand combat fought with clubs and rocks in the Galwan Valley, Ladakh
    The Indians today claimed after their men were savaged, the Chinese troops mutilated their corpses
    No bullets were fired as per a peace treaty which bars firearms within 2km of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the line drawn down the 17,000ft-high valley after India's defeat in the 1962 Sino-Indian War
    Responding to China's actions in the valley, Delhi warned Beijing against 'exaggerated and untenable claims'
    Comes after China broadcast live-fire drills with 7,000 infantry in the Tibetan plateau following the skirmish

By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline and Ap
Published: 04:10 EDT, 18 June 2020 | Updated: 09:04 EDT, 18 June 2020 ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8435033/India-says-soldiers-mutilated-beaten-death-Chinese-soldiers.html