Clear Your Confusion: Village built by China after overrunning Assam Rifles post at Arunachal border in 1959, says Sources

Source : The Times of India

Chinese village built at the Arunachal border, on the Chinese side, which is under control of China since 1959

Days after a Pentagon report mentioned that China has intruded 4.5 km within the territory of Arunachal Pradesh in India, sources in the security establishment on Tuesday said, “the village along disputed border in Upper Subansiri district is in territory controlled by China”.

According to the sources in the security establishment, the ‘large 100-home civilian village’ mentioned in the Pentagon report to the US Congress “has been built by China in an area that was occupied by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) after overrunning an Assam Rifles post in 1959, in an operation known as Longju incident along the frontier in Arunachal Pradesh”.

On mention of the Chinese village at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) along the India-China border in ‘US dept of defence report on China’, sources added, “For years, they’ve maintained an army post in the region and various constructions undertaken by the Chinese haven’t happened in a short time”.

The US department of defense, in its annual report to Congress on military developments involving China, claimed that “China has built a large 100-home civilian village inside disputed territory between the Tibet Autonomous Region and India’s Arunachal Pradesh”.

“In 2020, China built a large 100-home civilian village inside disputed territory between the Chinese Tibet Autonomous Region and India’s Arunachal Pradesh state in the eastern sector of the LAC. These and other infrastructure development efforts along India-China have been a source of consternation in the Indian government,” the Pentagon said.

The report also specifically pointed out that China has attempted to blame India for provoking the standoff through India’s “increased infrastructure development” near the LAC.