Twenty soldiers of India killed
by the Chinese just a few days back is not a big number for India to think
seriously and take corrective steps to
evade the repetition of such incidents? Did Indian intelligence find out the
capacity of our soldiers to face the supposed to be the superior quality of Chinese, Militarily? Or
did India took Chinese as Sri Lankans and Nepalese? India lost 20 soldiers just like anything, is
it not because of the wrong preparation of Indians to face as understood, the
much superior Chinese who liquidated Indian soldiers as if it was nothing? The leadership of India will do better when
it answers clearly why and under whose order Indian soldiers were sent to face
this type suicidal death? What is the defense
ministry saying? What was their opinion and
assessment before India’s soldiers engage with their enemies? Did they take
Chinese lightly? And is really the number of deaths was 20 only or more?
In mid-eighties in the longest time Hyjacking of a Kuwaiti Plane, I
think coming from Thailand and taken to Iran, because of one American passenger
flying in that Plane, the then President of USA was not sleeping properly by keeping
constantly awake even late at nights to enquire about the safety of Only One
citizen of theirs and when India lost its 20 soldiers it should be terrible.
What was the intelligence advice before engaging in this so called skirmishes
with China? Did India think it would be
a Kabaddi match with China to take it so lightly the life security of its so
many soldiers? Or is India having extra
excess soldiers to allow them to be sacrificed ? They
had human life in them. And can India trust China from its past experience?
When Nehru
visited China somewhere in 1954 the base for the slogan “Hindi-Chini Bhahi –
Bhahi” was just laid and it was further fortified somewhere in 1960 when
Cheu-en-lai visited Delhi. But hardly
had the echo of this slogan died down, in 1962 China waged a border war with
India killing so many soldiers of India and annexing a big area of land of
India which is still in their possession.
Is India capable
to fight with China? This question must
be answered first in its proper perspective.
Burning Chinese Flags and effigy of their leader and boycotting Chinese
goods will solve India’s problem? By marketing Chinese goods did India getting
benefits or the other way round? This is an economic point and whoever is benefiting more surely will move forward.
Fighting China is not fighting Portuguese soldiers in Goa in 1961 and
not Pakistan in East Pakistan. China is a rogue nation and most unreliable
besides Militarily more advanced. This nation does not care for the World public opinion and it
is not a democratic country for its leaders to rule it decently.
A.Veronica Fernnandes,
