Chinese Soldiers “Panicked Into Retreat” In Galwan, 38 Drowned: Report

New Delhi: 

The account of the Galwan violence in Australian newspaper “The Klaxon” — pieced together by a group of social media researchers — claims the Chinese soldiers who drowned in the Galwan river in June 2020, were in retreat after the clash with Indian troops. The report says China had lost 42 soldiers in the clash — many more than the four it had claimed. The “PLA soldiers panicked into retreat” and at least 38 of them were washed away, the report said.

Anthony Klan, the Editor of The Klaxon, told NDTV in an exclusive interview that the Indian soldiers had come to ascertain whether the Chinese has removed their encampments in the buffer zone when the scuffle broke out. “In heading back across the river… the evidence is, the Chinese soldiers got washed away,” he said, adding that much of this information was from “first-hand accounts deleted from the Chinese social media”.