India Today TV’s Abhishek Bhalla has accessed the pictures of the PLA soldiers who attempted to close-in on one of the Indian forward positions along the LAC near Rezang La on Monday evening.
Picture of PLA soldiers who attempted to close-in on one of the Indian forward positions along the LAC on the Monday evening (India Today image)
The Chinese troops who attempted to close-in on one of the Indian forward positions along the LAC near Rezang La on a Monday evening were carrying weapons like guns, spears and machetes.
India Today TV has accessed the pictures of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers who on Monday had attempted to dislodge Indian troops from their posts on mountain heights in the Rezang La region of Ladakh. Their attempts were thwarted by the Indian Army soldiers.
The pictures accessed by India Today TV show around 30 Chinese soldiers holding weapons, including guns, spears and machetes.
Chinese troops in Rezangla area where the current faceoff is happening. See the barbaric weapons #IndiaChinaFaceOff pic.twitter.com/wLpfJ2FqZH
— Abhishek Bhalla (@AbhishekBhalla7) September 8, 2020
On Monday night, PLA troops attempted to occupy a forward post along the LAC, which was thwarted by the Indian Army. The pictures of Chinese soldiers carrying spears and machetes indicates that they were expecting close combat with the Indian Army soldiers.
The Indian Army has also said that PLA troops fired a few rounds in the air in an attempt to intimidate their own troops and the Indian troops did not give in to the provocation by the Chinese military.
Indian Army has issued a statement saying, “In the instant case on 07 September 2020, it was the PLA troops who were attempting to close in with one of our forward positions along the LAC and when dissuaded by own troops, PLA troops fired a few rounds in the air in an attempt to intimidate own troops. However, despite the grave provocation, own troops exercised great restraint and behaved in a mature and responsible manner.”
PLA’s brute weapons
While machetes and spears may not be a common sight at any other battlefront, they are hardly a surprise in the hands of the Chinese troops. During the bloody skirmish in June, 20 Indian soldiers were killed after the PLA troops attacked them with boulders, rocks wrapped with barbed wire and wooden log with nails around them.
The Chinese soldiers had also resolved to stone-pelting and pushing Indian soldiers over the cliff to the narrow, fast-moving Galwan river.