While the discussions over India-China face-off still hit the headlines, a report from Uttar Pradesh gives us a glimpse of how deep the incident has touched an average Indian. Here is a piece of news that would make every Indian proud of the budding generations.
As per reports, Thana Gabhana police stopped a group of 10 children, aged between 7 and 11 years, in Village Amradpur near Aligarh of Uttar Pradesh on 19 June. The police personnel who found them marching towards the India-China border, they are asked where the children are going to. The answer was surprising – they wanted to avenge the death of Indian soldiers in Ladakh.
The policemen told the kids affectionately they need not fight the enemy till the time grown-ups are in the job, and sent the kids home.
In the night of 15 June, as soldiers of the Indian Army were returning from a major general-level meeting with China to defuse the tension along the Line of Actual Control (LoAC) in Ladakh, the Chinese attacked them while they were going through a narrow pass at the Galwan Valley. Violating the convention of not arriving for a meeting armed, the Chinese had come equipped with rods and clubs wrapped in barbed wire.
The Indians ― shocked, unarmed and outnumbered ― fought bravely but lost 20 soldiers in the Chinese ambush. While sources said China lost 43 men to death or injury, the PLA conceded the casualty but did not divulge the break-up of the figure into deaths and injuries.
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