“I fought for my mother, whom I could not see after the war ended,” Mr. Wang said in broken Hindi. Why let people die over a piece of land?”A surveyor in the People’s Liberation Army, Mr. Wang strayed into Arunachal Pradesh while on a stroll from his camp in January 1963. Tired and hungry, he hailed a Red Cross vehicle, only to be blindfolded and handed over to the Indian Army. If border tension escalates, I will never be able go back to China.”Upon his release, Mr. Wang began working at a flour mill in Tirodi village. “They even named him Bahadur,” recalled his son Vishnu Wang.

Source: The Hindu June 24, 2020 02:34 UTC