Chinese Soldiers “Panicked Into Retreat” In Galwan, 38 Drowned: Report

New Delhi:

The account of the Galwan violence in Australian newspaper “The Klaxon” — pieced collectively by a gaggle of social media researchers — claims the Chinese language troopers who drowned within the Galwan river in June 2020, had been in retreat after the conflict with Indian troops. The report says China had misplaced 42 troopers within the conflict — many greater than the 4 it had claimed. The “PLA troopers panicked into retreat” and at the very least 38 of them had been washed away, the report mentioned.

Anthony Klan, the Editor of The Klaxon, instructed NDTV in an unique interview that the Indian troopers had come to establish whether or not the Chinese language has eliminated their encampments within the buffer zone when the scuffle broke out. “In heading again throughout the river… the proof is, the Chinese language troopers acquired washed away,” he mentioned, including that a lot of this data was from “first-hand accounts deleted from the Chinese language social media”.

In its report, The Klaxon mentioned India’s Colonel Santosh Babu and his troops had gone to the disputed space on June 15 to aim to take away the Chinese language encroachment, the place Folks’s Liberation Military Colonel Qi Fabao was current together with practically 150 troopers. However Qi Fabao “ordered his troops to type a battle formation, as an alternative of discussing the problem on the strains of mutual consent made on June 6, 2021”.

Colonel Fabao attacked the Indian troops and to permit him to flee, two different PLA officers — battalion commander Chen Hongjun and soldier Chen Xiangrong — began a bodily scuffle with the Indian troops, utilizing metal pipes, sticks and stones. Colonel Fabao was “hit within the head by an Indian military solider”, and “rushed again with critical accidents”, the report learn.

Quoting the social media researchers’ report titled “Galwan Decoded”, The Klaxon then reported that Hongjun and Xiangrong had been “instantly silenced by the Indian military”.

It mentioned that “after Col. Fabao left the sector”, and watching the “our bodies of Main Chen Hongrun, Junior Sargeant Xiao Siyan and Personal Chen Xianrong,” that “PLA troopers panicked into retreat”.

“Wang Zhuoran, a 1996-born native of Luohe Metropolis, Yancheng County, Henan, got here ahead alongside together with his companion Ma Ming to assist his scattered retreating comrades out of hazard by guiding (their) strategy to retreat again,” the report learn.

“The PLA troopers did not even have time to put on water pants. They determined to cross the icy water of the river in pitch darkish beneath the steering of Wang… The river rose all of the sudden and injured comrades saved slipping and (being) washed downstream,” the Klaxon reported, quoting the social media researchers’ report.

Colonel Santosh Babu was killed within the combating together with 19 different troopers.

In China’s official model of occasions, just one soldier – Junior Sergeant Wang Zhuoran- drowned. Qi Fabao, the regiment commander who sustained a critical head damage, was among the many 1,200 torchbearers within the Winter Olympics in Beijing which begins tomorrow.

He was feted as a hero by the Chinese language state media, which reported his inclusion within the video games.

Beijing went to “excessive lengths to silence dialogue in regards to the battle” and specifically, any “dialogue in regards to the true quantity Chinese language casualties”, the Australian every day reported.