User:MBlaze Lightning/2022 Yangste clash
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The Yangste clash of 9 December 2022 occurred nocturnally between the troops of the Indian Army and the People's Liberation Army along the mutually contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Yangste region of Tawang in the border state of India's Arunachal Pradesh. The clashes ensued after the two armies confronted each other with nail-studded clubs and other anti-personnel weapons near positions on a 5180-metre mounting peak on the ridgeline south of the revered Buddhist site of Chumi Gyatse Falls, resulting in several casualties on both sides.
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Part of the Sino-Indian border dispute | |||||||
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India avowed that the incident was a Chinese enterprise, whose troops, equipped with spiked clubs with protruding nails, monkey fists and taser guns, nocturnally advanced upon its vantage military outpost manned by a force of about 50 on the peak with a force of over 300 soldiers with a view to capturing the high ground and alter the boundary in the area; they were then engaged by the Indian troops, until reinforcements arrived from the heights in the vicinity, and that in the ensuing violent clashes the Chinese were overwhelmed and beaten back. The Indian version of the chain of events was contested by the PLA, which imputed the transgression to the Indian troops at a time when its troops were performing customary patrol duty on its side of the border in the area.
The border incident marked the most serious clash between the two armies along the undemarcated border, since the Galwan valley clash in June 2020, which had led to the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of dead on the Chinese side.
Yangste was one of the twelve regions along the LAC that a Joint Working Committee in August, 1995 had recognised as disputed border area between India and China. It had been the site of several sproadic military skirmishes