What Led to the India-China Galwan Valley Clash

At least twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in clashes with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night. It was the biggest military confrontation in over five decades in the region.

The killings mark the Indian Army’s worst losses since the 1999 Kargil war and mark the most intense fighting between India and China since 1967.

“Even unarmed men who fled into the hillsides were hunted down and killed,” said one officer. “The dead include men who jumped into the Galwan river in a desperate effort to escape.”