Now that China have officially cleared the air regarding Galwan Valley clash with their newly released video. Its perhaps a good time to revisit an old Indian report of the Galwan Valley clash fresh right after the clash.
Yeah 'most detailed' alright. 10% probable truths, 90% Bollywood fantasy.
While young officers and jawans were raring to remove the Chinese post themselves, Colonel Babu, known to be a highly sober, cool-headed officer who had in a previous stint also served as a company commander in the area, decided to personally go.
Of course it has to start with Col Babu being the 'cool guy'. Cool my ass. If it wasn't for him leading his army of Jawans to destroy the Chinese camp, the whole Galwan clash wouldn't have happened.
When Colonel Babu opened the conversation, asking why the post had been re-erected, a Chinese soldier stepped up and pushed the Indian Colonel backwards hard, with expletives in the Chinese language.
First of all, Mandarin Chinese, the official language of China, does not really have direct expletives. Other Chinese dialects like Cantonese, Hokkien, etc has. How would Col Babu know what is being said to him are expletives? Does he understand other Chinese dialects being said to him? LOL! C'mon!
Does he consider this expletives then? That sign language? Col Santosh Babu has anger issues if he were to start a brawl from that.
In an Army unit, as several voices have since articulated, seeing your Commanding Officer disrespected and assaulted thus is equivalent to seeing your parents physically abused. The reaction was instant. The Indian team pounced on the Chinese. The fight strictly was a proper fist-fight with no melee weapons of any kind. This was the first brawl and ended about 30 minutes later with injuries on both sides, but the Indian team prevailing.
Yeah pouncing on the Chinese when they were extremely outnumbered. That's very brave of the Jawans. Bravo!
"The fight strictly was a proper fist-fight with no melee weapons of any kind." Yeah right. Then what the hell are we looking at?:
It was dark by this time, and visibility had plummeted. What Colonel Babu suspected was correct. More Chinese troops, of the 'new' kind, were waiting in positions both on the banks of the Galwan as well as in positions up on a ridge to the right. Almost as soon as they arrived, large stones began to land.
These are the 'new' kind of PLA they encountered? Well they were asking for it for starting a deadly brawl.
At about 9pm, Colonel Babu was struck on the head by a large stone, and he fell into the Galwan River. The assessment is that it may not have been a targeted attack on the Colonel, but in the flurry, he was struck.
Good! He must have really felt that didn't he? Didn't wake up after that! That's what you get for murdering PLA troops to fulfil some Bollywood fantasy. Boys on both sides didn't have to die. But Col. Babu had different ideas. That is why I will not honour his death.
With energy fully spent by nearly an hour of vicious hand-to-hand fighting, including the use of metal spiked clubs by the Chinese and barbed-wire wrapped rods, the two sides disengaged and things fell quiet. Things quietened down for an hour till about 11pm giving troops on both sides time to recover bodies.
Where were those metal spiked clubs and barbed-wire wrapped rods? I haven't seen them in the Chinese-released video. Its not these that killed most the dead Jawans. Its plain old blunt weapons and the Galwan River itself. Afraid to admit it?
The third phase of the brawl began shortly after 11pm and would continue with sporadic intensity till well past midnight fully on the Chinese side. Troop groups would continue fighting along the ridgelines moving up towards the right, with the intensity of the fisticuffs leading to many men on both sides plunging into the narrow Galwan river, some injuring themselves on rocks while falling. Earthworks by the Chinese on the banks of the Galwan and adjoining flanks of earth is said to have played a part in this.
By this point, the Jawans were routed, fleeing for their lives. Tripping over on 'Chinese earthworks' (rocks maybe?) and plunging into the frigid Galwan River. No need to write an epic, we all know what really happened. We have seen Jawans couldn't even handle angry farmers, what more angry PLA soldiers?
Former Army chief and current minister General VK Singh has come in record in media interviews to suggest that the Chinese casualties were more than double the 20 that the Indian Army suffered.
Ah yes, off course. You just had to quote the great General VK Singh. The man with the IQ of a 14 year old. Its 4 PLA deaths. FYI.
General Singh has also hinted at an exchange of men after the incident. This too has been borne out from ground reports, with top Army sources clarifying to India Today TV that it wasn't a 'prisoner exchange'.
Wrong General Singh. There was a prisoner exchange. And those were Indian soldiers.
In the chaotic melee that was brawl No.3, the disengagement in the darkness led to several injured men from both sides remaining with the other.
By dawn on June 16, the Indian troops withdrew back across the LAC, after judging that many were still missing. Men on the ground say this wasn't a 'captivity' or 'prisoner' situation, since these were all injured men. When the sun rose, the situation was handed over to Major Generals on both sides, and talks hinged on the modalities of the exchange.
Wrong again. The Indian Army Jawans fled and left their injured Jawans behind. So much for 'brave Jawans', and"leave no men behind". It was military disaster of the highest order. A true humiliating rout. The PLA had to find and treat the injured Jawans after the clash, and then return them after. We have seen similar things in the 1962 war.
Your Jawans have yet again proven to world that the Indian Army is not in the same league as the PLA. That is a military and national humiliation that cannot be hidden with mountains of BS. If course this is insulting for me to say since many Jawans lost their lives at Galwan. But I don't care. This is what India gets for continuously insulting China, the PLA, and the Chinese people.
