Galwan Valley: PLA Troops return to clash site, Set up tents: Reports

TIL Desk/National/Ladakh/ Defying the agreed mutual consensus to disengage, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops have returned to Patrolling Post 14 on the Line of Actual Control in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh where the barbaric June 15 attack, in which 20 Indian Army soldiers were killed, occurred.

The PLA has even set up tents and an observation point exactly where it was on June 15, sources said, adding that the Chinese have returned with huge reinforcements even after they have agreed to withdraw their troops and dismantle their setups. Sources said that during 11-hour-long Corps Commander level talks between India and China on June 22, it was stated that there was “mutual consensus to disengage”.

 It was also stated that “modalities for disengagement from all friction areas in eastern Ladakh were discussed”. The Corps Commanders of two countries’ militaries had met at Moldo to resolve the border issue and ease tension in eastern Ladakh. This was their second meeting after the first one on June 6.