India, May 11 -- Chinese People's Liberation Army troops killed 20 Indian Army soldiers in a pre-planned ambush in the Galwan Valley along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh on the night of 15 June 2020, using improvised weapons prepared in advance, in what India's government and independent analysts have since documented as deliberate, state-sanctioned aggression rather than a spontaneous border skirmish.

PLA Provocations Began in Early May

The violence did not begin that June night. From early May 2020, PLA units had been encroaching on Indian positions in the Galwan River valley, erecting tents and structures on terrain India patrols as part of its recognised LAC boundary. Independent satellite imagery confirmed Chinese constructio...