HONG KONG: China lodged another strong protest with the Indian Embassy in Peking today [June 19] against the attack on the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi last Friday, the New China News Agency reported.

In a Note to the Embassy the Chinese Government demanded that India “admit its mistake, make an open apology, immediately punish the culprits, compensate for all the losses, provide fully adequate medical facilities for the wounded Chinese personnel, and guarantee that no similar incidents occur in the future”.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry Note warned that unless these demands are met the Indian Government would be held fully responsible for all “grave consequences arising therefrom”.

Several Chinese diplomats were hurt in last Friday’s attack on the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi.

The Note delivered to the Indian Embassy today said that in the attack Indian “ruffians” savagely beat eight Chinese diplomats.

The Note identified officials as First Secretary Chen Lu-cheh, Attaché Chang Teh Fgiang and working personnel Li Szu-heng, Liu Chung-fu, Wang Li-en, Hung Chuan-chia, Shen Kan-pei and Li Chao-chien.

It said all the eight Chinese were wounded “in more than 10 places”. “Some were even beaten unconscious.”

The Chinese Note added that during the attack on the Embassy Indian policemen on the spot, instead of stopping the demonstrators, “directly commanded and joined in these atrocities”. It further said that instead of giving the injured men immediate medical treatment, the Indian authorities delayed in doing so for as long as four hours. The Note charged the attack on the Embassy was “entirely planned and engineered by the Indian Government” and was a “serious, sanguinary crime”.

Meanwhile Chinese personnel at the Indian Embassy resumed work today after a two-day strike in protest against incidents at the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi.— Agencies

Published in Dawn, June 20th, 2017