The Indian Army has constructed a memorial commemorating the sacrifices of the soldiers who had been martyred in the Galwan valley attacks. The memorial has come up at ‘KM-120’, a point near the confluence of the Galwan and Shyok rivers in honour of the martyrs who lost their life fighting the Chinese Army.
Earlier, the names of all the 20 Indian soldiers were inscribed on the pillar of the National War Memorial and pictures of the same have been released by the Army.
On June 15, soldiers of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) ambushed at the Galwan Valley in which 20 Indian soldiers, including Colonel B Santosh Babu, the commanding officer of the 16 Bihar regiment were martyred. The Indian Army fought with the Chinese army for hours in unarmed combat and inflected a very high death toll on the PLA. The incident significantly escalated the border tension in eastern Ladakh with India calling it “a premeditated and planned action by China”.
Following this, there were talks of disengagement between the External Affairs Ministries of both countries, and both the armies have disengaged from the Galwan area where a violent faceoff happened on the intervening night of June 15 and 16. 20. The casualties on the Chinese side based on Indian intercepts have been placed at 43.