When Col. Shah arrived there on October 23, there was a sense of fear and low morale among the Assam Rifles jawans there. Tulung La sits at 17,200 feet, and it’s a four-hour climb from its base at Lungar. What troubled Col. Shah was why it took seven days for the Chinese to acknowledge what had happened. “The sad truth is from 1962 to 1975, we had just become too casual, and this was the entire political leadership and the military leadership,” said Col. Shah. The motivations for the PLA’s actions still remain a mystery — one thing, Col. Shah notes, that hasn’t really changed 45 years later.

Source: The Hindu September 20, 2020 14:03 UTC