People of Ladakh say it is the first time since 1962 that they have witnessed such a large-scale military operation.

Leh, dated 2 June 2020, Tuesday

The dispute over the Ladakh border between China and India is still going on. The armies of both the countries are facing this. As the two countries pitted thousands of troops against each other, people in eastern Ladakh say it is the first time since 1962 that they have witnessed such a large-scale military operation.

The people of these eight villages near the Chinese border fear that violence could break out in the area at any time. "We are seeing artillery and weapons moving across the border in an extraordinary way," Chunchul area councilor Konchok Stangin told an English newspaper. We want that. The condition soon returns to normal.

"People are doing their job, but the stress and the panic are still there," Stangin said. The air distance of these villages is less than 10 km from Galwan valley where the armies of both the countries are facing each other. In the Galwan area, people take their animals for grazing every winter. Earlier, when there was tension between the two sides, it was resolved through dialogue, but this time the tension is high.

The people of the village are worried that if the situation worsens, where will we go, because even the communication network here has not developed on such a large scale. Lake Pyongyang, where tensions are running high, tends to become a tourist destination in the summer. This time, however, tensions with Corona and China have led to a lack of hope for tourists.