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| Border villagers give proof of open Chinese incursions | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Ladakh Jan 13: In proof that China will find hard to rubbish, border villagers provided sufficient evidence of repeated Chinese incursions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and also shared their plight of living in the area to a national channel
Despite India turning a blind eye to the repeated incursions by China, villagers around the LAC allege that the lack of development in the area is making them more susceptible to bullying by China.
In the tiny village short of the LAC border, villagers continously said that China freely cross the border and are slowly redefying the LAC drawn after the Indo-China war of 1962.
Kalzang Ponchok, a local shepard said, "There was no incident for a long time, they entered on their own and in the summer the roads make it easy for them to come atleast half a killometre to one kilometre into our territory."
Another resident, Tsering Dondup added, "China should be told to stay calm and stay within their own palce. They snatched Tibet and they have snatched seven countries. We Indians are peaceful always and we always keep saying shanti shanti. How long will we talk of peace?"
Earlier, seeking to play down reports of incursions by Chinese troops into Indian territory , Air Chief Marshal P V Naik had said that such incidents take place regularly and "make no difference". Noting that he was not aware of any such particular incident, the Air Chief said, "These things keep happening. During snowfall, even on our thing (side), people go one odd kilometre here and there. It makes no difference."
Chinese troops, in September-October last year, had reportedly entered Gombir area in Demchok region in Jammu and Kashmir and threatened civilian workers building a shed as per plans cleared by the state rural development department.
Meanwhile, Army Chief General V K Singh had also said that the "so-called" intrusions take place due to perceptional differences about the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China, an issue which is being addressed by the two countries through discussion.
The Army chief had said that he did not view the incident, which took place about two months back, as an alarming development.
"I only see it as a problem of perception. We patrol upto our perception of the LAC which is further east of this and the Chinese come to the LAC as perceived by them," he said.
"When they do that and it is beyond our line, it is called transgression. I am quite sure on the Chinese side also they would call it a transgression when our patrols go upto our line of perception," Singh said.
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