{
 "no": 9,
 "id": "case-9",
 "sk": 20200615,
 "year": 2020,
 "date": "15 Jun 2020",
 "cat": "National security",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Galwan. 20 soldiers dead, and 'no one entered'",
 "stamp": "Incursion publicly denied",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>20</b> Indian soldiers killed, 70+ injured, the first LAC combat deaths in 45 years",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Reported loss of patrolling access at several points along the Ladakh LAC",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Indian and Chinese troops fought hand to hand in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in the deadliest border clash with China since 1962.",
 "dodge": "Days later, the Prime Minister told an all-party meeting that nobody had entered Indian territory and no post had been captured. Critics said it handed Beijing a propaganda gift and contradicted his own government's earlier account. If no one intruded, they asked, where did 20 soldiers die? No accountability followed for the intelligence failure or the lost ground.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Narendra Modi",
   "r": "Prime Minister"
  },
  {
   "n": "Rajnath Singh",
   "r": "Defence Minister"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The PMO said the remark referred to the situation after the army repelled the transgression, and pointed to disengagement talks.",
 "alt": "A straight account to Parliament of what territory was lost and why, an intelligence-failure review, and honesty owed to the dead.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Modi denies incursion (Al Jazeera)",
   "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/19/modi-denies-chinese-incursion-into-india-before-deadly-clash",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260123050947/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/19/modi-denies-chinese-incursion-into-india-before-deadly-clash"
  },
  {
   "label": "How territory was lost (Caravan)",
   "url": "https://caravanmagazine.in/security/india-china-ladakh",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260515140316/https://caravanmagazine.in/security/india-china-ladakh"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 20
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-9/"
}