Chinese Soldier trapped in India goes home after 50 years

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

I think the old man's son should start doing- is to trim his mustache and goatee- he will fit in more with Chinese society

 

[SBUS-CXK]

He is not in captivity here. Rather he is settled here & has wife n children here. That was kept deliberately hidden in Chinese article for particular purpose. Perhaps free Google might help you in getting real information.


He is now part Indian himself having a well settled family here. Please search in Google, there is extensive details shared by India unlike the propaganda article written by CPC news site few days back. Thank you.

1, He gave up his mother and brother. Willing to stay in India?
2, Why now he wanted to go back to China?

When we hear some kind of propaganda, we should first use the logical thinking. If propaganda is against logic, it is wrong.

 

[RISING SUN]

1, He gave up his mother and brother. Willing to stay in India?
2, Why now he wanted to go back to China?

When we hear some kind of propaganda, we should first use the logical thinking. If propaganda is against logic, it is wrong.

He might be willing to goto birthplace at the earliest, there is no doubt about that. Why did he had to wait for six decades before anybody took notice. Anyways on a personal note I am happy he got the chance to meet his relatives, rest people can debate forever, doesn't matter much now.

Thank you

 

[nature is]

After the cessation of the war with India in 1962 the PLA released all Indian captives immediately. There were around 3-4 thousand and returned in good health.

Why was Wang Qi held in prison for 7 years before being left with out any papers to see to his return to China?

There were a handful of other Chine PLA POWs who were treated awfully in the jungle of Indian Bureaucrazy.

I hope this concludes the nasty episode of the Indian war.

There is no justice under the skies of India.

The sharp contrast between the ways to treat POWs, may indicate the gap between the national psyches of two nations. I believe Indian government's actions to withhold the information of Chinese POWs and confine them in either mental hospital or remote village were deliberate.

Not just the treatment of POWs, Chinese community in India were sent to detention camp for many years, their property confiscated.


India’s fading Chinese community faces painful war past

Suspected of being a spy or a China sympathiser, nine-year-old Indian-born Monica Liu and her family were loaded into railway cars for a detention camp in India's Rajasthan desert.

Liu was one of about 3,000 people of Chinese descent, most of them Indian citizens, rounded up and held at the fenced camp without trial after India's month-long border war with China in 1962.

During her five years in Deoli camp, built in the 1800s by the British, Liu remembers the heat, lack of schooling and the sound of her mother crying "from morning till night".

But her strongest memories are of her family's desperation once finally freed without charge by India's government.

"We didn't have a single penny," Liu said in the eastern city of Calcutta, recalling sleeping in a bus shelter with her siblings and parents.

India's Chinese community, whose ancestors flocked to Calcutta and the northeast to do business, bore the brunt of India's humiliating war with China - fought 52 years ago this month.

Over the decades, the two Asian giants have taken steps to heal their festering distrust, a legacy of the war. But tensions remain, with President Xi Jinping's visit to New Delhi in September to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi overshadowed by a troop stand-off along their border.

The dwindling Chinese community, strongest in Calcutta, has long stayed quiet about the injustice some of them have suffered, fearful of drawing attention.

Only a handful are prepared to speak out - and want the government to admit its treatment of them during that time was a mistake. "The wounds haven't healed. The suffering has to be acknowledged first for the wounds to be healed. This has never happened," said Paul Chung, president of the Indian Chinese Association.

Liu, who runs a string of Chinese restaurants in Calcutta, said she doesn't have time to dwell on the past - but her anger remains.

"We don't have any connection with the government of China so why should we suffer?" she asked seated at a table in her restaurant named Beijing.

The community was once tens of thousands strong, after Chinese arrived in India from the 1700s as traders or carpenters and to set up sugar refineries and tanneries.

It now numbers about 4,000, most of them in Calcutta, which was hit hard in 2002 when a court ordered the city's tanneries, largely Chinese-run, to move out for pollution reasons.

A daily Chinese-language newspaper is still printed there and temples have been restored. Plans have been mooted to revamp Calcutta's Chinatown and preserve its heritage, but nothing has been finalised.

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1630785/indias-fading-chinese-community-faces-painful-war-past

 

[ahojunk]

Let's stay on topic please.
This thread is about the former soldier, Wang Qi.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Let's stay on topic please.
This thread is about the former soldier, Wang Qi.

Wang Qi would disapprove of the treatment of Chinese in India, both civilian and military.