{"id":28422,"date":"2020-06-24T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T10:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=28422"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T10:06:54","slug":"pla-says-india-crossed-lac-june-15-clash-happened-on-chinas-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=28422","title":{"rendered":"PLA says India crossed LAC, June 15 clash happened on China\u2019s side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

India has stressed that it was the Chinese side that attacked its troops in a \u201cpre-meditated\u201d manner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday said the June 15 clash in Galwan Valley \u201chappened entirely on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control\u201d (LAC) and accused Indian troops of crossing the line, saying \u201cthe responsibility entirely lies with India\u201d for the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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In its most detailed comments so far on the unprecedented clash in the valley that claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers \u2014 China has not revealed the number of its casualties \u2014 the Defence Ministry in Beijing reiterated China\u2019s \u201csovereignty over Galwan Valley\u201d. The Defence Ministers of the two countries had been in communication over phone following the incident, it stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is shocking is that on the evening of June 15, the Indian front line frontier troops openly violated the consensus reached by the two parties [on June 6], went back and forth across the line, crossed the LAC again and deliberately provoked China,\u201d said PLA Senior Colonel and Defence Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile negotiating on the spot, Chinese officers and soldiers were suddenly violently attacked by the Indian side. This triggered intense physical clashes between officers and soldiers on both sides, resulting in casualties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India, however, has stressed that it was the Chinese side that attacked its troops in a \u201cpre-meditated\u201d manner, following a dispute over a tent set up by China on India\u2019s side of the LAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Senior Colonel Wu said, \u201cThe Chinese border guards have taken decisive measures to defend themselves and resolutely responded to the violent acts of the Indian side, effectively safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity. The incident was entirely caused by India\u2019s violation of consensus and unilateral provocation. It happened entirely on the Chinese side of the LAC approved by both parties The responsibility lies entirely with India. The Chinese side requires the Indian side to severely punish the perpetrators and strictly control the front line troops to ensure that such incidents will not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The LAC observed by both sides runs through the valley and east of the confluence of the Galwan and Shyok rivers. Senior Colonel Wu said the clash happened on the Chinese side of the line \u201capproved by both parties\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s assertion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

India, however, has said its troops did not cross the LAC, and that the clash was triggered by China breaking the June 6 consensus and erecting structures on India\u2019s side of the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While initially referring to the agreed upon LAC, Senior Colonel Wu subsequently referred to the entire valley east of the Shyok river as Chinese territory and that China had since April objected to India\u2019s activities east of the Shyok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cChina has sovereignty over Galwan Valley\u201d and \u201cfor many years, Chinese border guards have been patrolling and performing their duties here.\u201d “Since April this year, the Indian border defence forces have unilaterally built facilities in the region, and China has repeatedly made representations and protests on this. In the early hours of May 6, the Indian border guards crossed the line and entered the Chinese territory to construct barriers, blocking the normal patrol of the Chinese border guards, and attempted to unilaterally change the status of border control. The Chinese border defence force had to take necessary measures to strengthen on-site response and control of the border area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the Corps Commander level meet on June 6, he said, both sides agreed \u201cto take practical measures to ease the situation in the border areas.\u201d This included India \u201cpromising not to patrol and build facilities at the mouth of the Galwan River\u201d, or the Galwan-Shyok confluence. The two sides agreed to withdraw the troops in batches through a meeting of local commanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India said the consensus was breached by China erecting structures on its side of the LAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Senior Colonel Wu said both sides had been in touch through military and diplomatic channels following the clash, and that the two defence ministers were also talking by phone. \u201cChina and India are important neighbours to each other, and maintaining peace and tranquility in the border area is in the common interests of both parties and requires the joint efforts of both parties. We hope that India and China will meet each other halfway, effectively implement the important consensus between the leaders of the two countries, strictly abide by the agreement reached by the two parties, continue to properly resolve relevant issues through dialogue and negotiation at all levels. We will make joint efforts to ease the situation in the border areas and maintain peace and stability in the border areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With inputs from The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India has stressed that it was the Chinese side that attacked its troops in a \u201cpre-meditated\u201d manner China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday said the June 15 clash in Galwan Valley \u201chappened entirely on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control\u201d (LAC) and accused Indian troops of crossing the line, saying \u201cthe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}