For ppl who ask about chinese dead on the Winter Retreat from Tezpur:
The Chinese buried the dead. Maybe tossed them into ravines. Many of the deaths were from altitude sickness, cholera, dysentry, Yellow Fever, pneumonia etc. They would have forced the North Dharmasala civilians to dig the mass graves.
The Winter Retreat was basically the same as Napoleon's and Hitler's EXCEPT For one thing: Indian disinterest in killing Chinese needlessly.
Even recently this persists. In the Nathu La debacle, the PLA, after losing over 722 soldiers, retreated with what was left, and the Indians WERE ORDERED TO HOLD FIRE. Same at Tezpur: US Amb. Galbraith and our netaship agreed not to use the airforce to finish off the PLA in the Himalayas.
World "hysterians" such as John Garver are too full of themselves to recognize that Indians exercised extreme restraint and "Insaniyat" over "Insanity" in not killing many more Chinese. Since the Chinese were running away, it was hoped that better sense would ultimately prevail and the two countries could go on as amicable neighbors instead of creating another 1947-type genocidal hatred for generations. Frankly I think this was far-sighted policy, the only downside is that too many ppl are idiots who only care about Body Counts. In the long run, Indians have nothing against Chinese people - sure they are not trustworthy but heck, what's new about that, look at our own "kin" to the west...
The absolutely enraging aspect of Rezang La was that those heroes died DEFENDING AN AIR STRIP. But no IAF arrived to even help them massacre the invaders, or at least airdrop bullets to them. Of course this is because the Baboon at Dilli HQ were asleep. Watch the videos posted b4, and listen to the surviving heroes' shock: When they related the events, the Army brass threatened to court-martial them if they spoke of it again!!! But I still wonder why the IAF was not around at least to do recon. Oh wait! I take that back, it was in the middle of a blizzard at 18000 feet!
All those WW2 and Cold War fiction stories can't hold a candle to the real history of the Indian Armed Forces. We need temples built to deities such as Shaitan Singh and Avestha. And their more recent brothers who won the Kargil War. The soldier "Sangram", wrestling champ, breaking chinese heads by banging them together as he himself was dying, reminds me of Bhima of the MB.
Someone who is fluent in Hindi needs to make a detailed transcript of those interviews. Can't believe that Stinker Dupatta actually found such people. How many more are left? Any way to capture their memories?
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