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An Indian agent was killed and another was seriously injured by the impact of a mine on the shores of Pangong Tso Lake, near the border with China.
Special service soldier Tenzin Nyima, 53, was killed near Lake Pangong Tso, where the Reality Control Line (LAC) between India and China passed, said three Indian officials and two family members of the task force. September 2nd. Another task force was injured in the incident, but the cause and details of the blast have not been disclosed.
Nyima was on the payroll of the Forward Special Forces (SFF), also known as the Vikas Battalion, a special forces unit established after the Indochina War of 1962. SFF personnel were recruited primarily from the merchant community. One hundred thousand Tibetans are settling in India, the rest are Indian citizens.
Very little information has been published about the SFF. This task force is under the direction of the Agency for Investigation and Analysis (RAW), in charge of foreign intelligence, and is assigned many tasks including reconnaissance, hostage rescue, fight against terrorism, not war. symmetry. Two Indian officials estimate that the SFF has more than 3,500 members.
Indian soldiers in military vehicles passed the Srinagar-Leh highway in June. Anatolia.
Amitabh Mathur, a former adviser to the Indian government in Tibet, said the SFF was a “commando force specialized in climbing and fighting at high altitude.” “I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire SFF is deployed high. They are excellent climbers and special forces,” said Mathur.
India’s Ministry of Defense and Home Office did not respond to requests for comment on the SFF.
When asked about the news at a press conference in Beijing on September 2, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Xuan Oanh said she did not know whether the Tibetans “fought for India.” She said China is firmly opposed to any country, including India, that supports the “separatist” activities of the forces claiming Tibetan independence.
India’s Tibetan community shares videos of Nyima’s funeral in Choglamsar village, Ladakh region. Two relatives and neighbors of Nyima relate that an Indian government official who brought the coffin of Nyima’s national flag to the village stated that the special task “was sacrificed to defend India.”
The Indian official asked the family not to speak about Nyima’s 33 years of service at SFF, relatives said. India’s Ministry of Defense and Home Office did not comment on the information.
A senior Indian military official said that the SFF played a key role in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, which took place over 13 days and led to the establishment of Bangladesh. SFF also participated in the 1999 battle at Kargil in the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.
The location of the confrontation between the Indian and Chinese forces. Graphics: Telegraph.
Tensions on the Indochina border have escalated since late April and early May. At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the June 15 fight in the Galwan Valley between Aksai Chin and China. Ladakh is controlled by India. It was the first fatal collision across LAC in at least 45 years.
On August 31, the Indian government accused China of carrying out “provocative military activities” three months after “the Chinese army annexed 60 square kilometers of Indian territory in Ladakh.”
Indian police sources said their forces had been fighting Chinese soldiers for three hours in the narrow Spanggur Valley near the East Ladakh village of Chushul on August 28. An Indian special forces battalion received retaliatory orders and captured a Chinese barracks on the hill around Pangong Tso Lake the next morning.
However, at a press conference the same day, China’s Foreign Ministry denied allegations that the country’s military would cross LAC, the de facto border between the world’s two most populous countries. China claims that Indian troops are occupying its territory.
Nguyen tien (According to the Reuters)
