How did a "disengagement" exercise turn so fatal so fast?
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| | Injured Indian soldiers were brought to a field hospital in Darbuk, then helicoptered from Darbuk to the Military Hospital in Leh, the capital of Ladakh and the nearest district town after the Indian Army said a “disengagement exercise” with a Chinese Army unit on June 15 escalated into a violent face-off resulting in the deaths of at least 20 Indian troops.
These deaths, a first along the Indo-Chinese border in 45 years, have prompted many questions on how a “disengagement” exercise between Indian and Chinese soldiers could turn so fatal so fast. The answers lie in the terrain, and the contested histories, of the icy northern ranges that both India and China lay claim to.
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The Galwan is a narrow river that flows east to west along a deep and narrow gorge cutting through the Karakoram mountain range before its confluence with the Shyok, a fast flowing river that originates in the Aksai Chin — an area claimed by both India and China — and eventually empties into the Indus river near Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan, a region controlled by Pakistan. |
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