Tombs of dead PLA soldiers in the Galwan Valley.
Key points
- India already had evidence of 35 victims on the Chinese side, but these images now show that there have been more than 35 deaths.
- China did not want to grant a public funeral to its soldiers in an attempt to maintain its image.
- 20 Indian soldiers, including the commander of Bihar’s 16th Infantry Regiment, Colonel B Santosh Babu, lost their lives in the PLA ambush.
New Delhi: Forty-seven days after the confrontation in the Galwan Valley, the evidence of the casualties of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is finally known. Images of the graves of Chinese soldiers killed in the clash are going viral on Chinese social media. India already had evidence of 35 victims on the Chinese side, but these images now show that there have been more than 35 deaths.
The inscription on one of the headstones, in Mandarin, reads: “Tomb of the martyr Chen Xiangrong, a soldier of Unit 69316 of the Xinjiang Southern Military District of the 13th Regiment of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Born in December 2001 , in Pingnan County, Fujian Province of China. Sacrificed in the fight against the Indian border defense in June 2020. “
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had previously stated that the Indian jaws had died while fighting and now the images prove his claim. China did not want to grant a public funeral to its soldiers in an attempt to maintain its image, Times Now’s Pradeep Dutta reported.
So far, China has not made any official statement on the casualties in Galwan, while 20 Indian soldiers, including the commander of Bihar’s 16th Infantry Regiment, Colonel B Santosh Babu, lost their lives in the PLA ambush. After Colonel Babu succumbed to his injuries, Indian army forces in a retaliatory attack killed an unknown number of PLA soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
The controversy that erupted even after our prime minister’s formal statement exposes the mindset of certain people who are congenitally anti-India, said author RSN Singh.
The Indian army also fought against humans, not robots. They retaliated on the same ground, added former battalion commander Pangong Tso.
While the initial disconnect took place in the Galwan Valley and Patrol Point 15, China is reluctant to move from Lake Pangong and the Gogra-Hot Springs area, also known as Patrol Point 17A.
