CHINA TAKING INDIAN LAND INCH BY INCH !!!

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Source: http://www.dc-epaper.com/DC/DCH/2009/09 ... tml?Mode=0

SUMIR KAUL
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The Chinese Army has reportedly carried out some construction activities along the international border across the Karakoram ranges in the Ladakh sector for the first time since the 1962 war. A J&K government report claims the Chinese PLA has been taking "land in inches ... and not in yards".
Official sources said this could be either for stationing additional personnel or to mount cameras to monitor Indian troop movement.

The Karakoram Pass falls precisely on the boundary between India and China's Xinjiang autonomous region, which marks the northern end of the LAC. It also plays a major geographic role in the dispute between Pakistan and India over control of the Siachen Glacier area immediately to the west of the pass.

This situation arose from the Simla Agreement, signed in 1972 between India and Pakistan, when the treaty failed to specify the last 100 km of ceasefire line from end of the Line of Control to Karakoram Pass. The west of the pass is also referred as China-IndianPakistani tri-point.

While the Army tried to downplay this development, they, however acknowledged that some digging had been noticed.
"There has been no report of concrete huts being built across Karakoram Pass.
However, some digging has been noticed well inside Chinese territory," an Army spokesman said.

The Jammu and Kashmir report highlights the Chinese incursions into Ladakh. "They (Chinese) have threatened the nomadic people who had been using Dokbug area (in Ladakh sector) area for grazing since decades long, in a way to snatch our land in inches. A Chinese proverb is famous in the world -- better do in inches than in yards," the report filed by a former sub-divisional magistrate (Nyoma) Tsering Norboo said. He had been deputed to probe incursion of the Chinese in Dokbug area and threatening the local shepherds to leave the land as it belonged to them.

Earlier on July 31, the PLA violated the International Border in Ladakh and painted boulders and rocks in the area red. Chinese helicopters also violated Indian airspace on June 21 along the LAC in Chumar region.