India is very rich county and it is developing country...bringing love for soldiers who died in fight for India.. Peace tear violence what is this???? India ---
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n December 2015, responding to a query, the ministry of defence (MoD) presented the following data to Lok Sabha: since 1984, when the India Army was first deployed on the Siachen glacier to pre-empt the purported occupation of the glacier by the Pakistan Army, a total of 869 troops have died, not fighting the enemy, but unable to cope with extreme altitude and climactic conditions, including avalanches.
Two months later, in February 2016, another avalanche rolled down the icy wasteland of Siachen taking 10 more precious lives, one of whom, Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad, managed to stay alive for nearly six days buried under the snow at the temperature of -45 degrees. Hailed as a national hero — Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited him in the army hospital — Koppad died in the hospital due to multiple organ failure.
The national media followed the story of his survival and subsequent death with a pathological frenzy. His name became synonymous with courage and was used for several days to beat lesser patriots into submission on primetime news. Lost in the cacophony were two grim truths.
One, Koppad did not stay alive under 35 feet of snow in -45 degrees; he was simply dying slowly and painfully. Interested readers can look up any number of literary/ medical accounts, even online, to see the havoc sub-zero temperature in high altitude causes to the human body. Two, there was no heroism in his death; only abjectness topping misery. He left behind a widow and a two-year-old child who didn’t even have the comfort of the knowledge that their loved one died in a battlefield, fighting the enemy for the honour of his flag and his country.
In the end, desperate soldiers like Koppad simply add to the statistics. According to the data website, IndiaSpend, on an average two soldiers a month have been dying at Siachen since 1984.
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