NEW DELHI -Indian Military Corps Commander land on Chinese side of LAC fornegotiations following worst clash of 5 decades.
Indian military commander aimed to ease tensions at their contestedborder, as the public mood hardened in India for a military and economicriposte to China following the worst clash in over five decades.
An Indian government source said corps commanders from both sides met inMoldo, on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control, the de factoborder dividing India’s Ladakh region from the Chinese held Aksai Chin,high in the western Himalayas.
Lower ranking officers had attended the first parley last Thursday afterthe brutal clashlinkonJune 15, when soldiers fought with rocks, metal rods and wooden clubs.
While blaming each other’s forces for the bloodshed, the two governmentshave sought to avoid any escalation that could risk further conflictbetween the two nuclear armed states.
Under long observed protocols, both militaries refrain from firing weapons,and the last time there was a deadly clash on the disputed border was in1967.
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The Indian foreign ministry has, however, described the fighting that left20 Indian soldiers dead and at least 76 injured as a “pre-meditated andplanned action” by China.
For its part, China has accused Indian troops of violating a militaryagreement, and provoking and attacking its troops in the Galwan valley inLadakh. China has not disclosed how many casualties it suffered, though anIndian minister has said around 40 Chinese soldiers may have been killed.
Shocked and angered by the death of their soldiers, Indians have beencalling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist government to showIndia will not be bullied, bitterly remembering their country’s humiliationin a war against China in 1962.
Members of an Indian traders body made a bonfire of Chinese goods at abazaar in New Delhi, pushing for a nationwide boycott of products made inChina.
