Map provided by The Wire, article by Broadsword, both are Indian media agencies/blogs
By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 1st Sept 20
The
failure of three months of military and diplomatic dialogue in
persuading Beijing to withdraw its troops from Eastern Ladakh was
underlined on Sunday when hundreds of soldiers of China’s People’s
Liberation Army (PLA) crossed into the Indian side of the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) south of Pangong Tso lake, occupied a mountain called
Helmet Top and began building fortifications.
Credible
government sources say Indian soldiers from the nearby Thakung post
intervened, to try and prevent the PLA from building defences. Physical
clashes followed, though there are no reports of firing or casualties on
either side.
Sources
say, the PLA now occupies Helmet Top, as well as a nearby feature
called Black Top, both of which are on the Indian side of the LAC. From
here, Chinese soldiers can observe and track Indian movements across the
Pangong lake and as far away as India’s tactically vital Chushul
garrison.
“On
the night of 29/30 August, PLA troops violated the consensus arrived at
during military and diplomatic engagements… and carried out
provocative military movements to change the status quo,” said the
Indian army on Monday.
“Indian
troops pre-empted this PLA activity on the southern bank of Pangong Tso
Lake, undertook measures to strengthen our positions and thwart Chinese
intentions to unilaterally change facts on ground,” said the army
statement.
“A brigade commander-level flag meeting is in progress in Chushul to resolve the issues,” it said.
Indian
officials, however, are keeping silent about a counter operation,
launched on Sunday night by soldiers of a secretive Indian commando
force called the Special Frontier Force (SFF). Consisting of soldiers
recruited from the Tibetan refugee community in India and formed into
what are termed “Vikas battalions”, an SFF detachment is reported to
have occupied key heights that China claims as their own.
Read the above article accusing PLA for crossing the LAC by India. Look at the map provided by the Wire, an Indian agency, look at the red line showing the LAC(line of control) and see the where the sites of contention are located. From the map, it is clear that both Helmet Top and Black Top are on the Chinese side of the LAC in the map produced by the Indians. For the Indians to be in the two sites are evidence that they have crossed the LAC into the Chinese side.
If this is a Chinese map, the Indians can claim that the LAC on the map is in the wrong place. But this is an Indian map. So, who is the liar?
Unbelieveable! Telling lies and producing evidence to prove and confirm their lies. The two sides of the LAC were clearly marked. The Chinese were on their sides of the LAC, the Indians crossed the LAC. Period.