中印邊界戰爭的解放軍戰俘

從小到大，我讀過的有關62年中印邊界自衛反擊戰的資料，都不無自豪地提到在整個東西戰線上，我軍無一被俘，卻生俘印軍少將以降近4000人，優禮有加，並很快全部釋放了他們。今晚看老印論壇，才得知當年解放軍也有被俘的，有個印軍高級軍官Shaitan Singh屠殺了手中數目不詳的解放軍被俘士兵。另外有據可查的是2名四川籍的被俘戰士，曾經被印方用來宣傳戰績和控訴中國侵略，先是被關押在首都新德裏的重犯監獄整整8年，隨即被關入偏遠地區的精神病院，總共被監禁隔離長達41年，才得到新任駐印大使的重視並解救回國。41年啊！國家裝作他倆早已犧牲，換來“無一被俘”的無上榮耀。跟黨國的麵子比，戰士個人的生命賤若螻蟻。

 

The longest serving Chinese POWs in the world，is finally out after 41 years

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India frees two Chinese POWs after 41 years

Sat Jul 19, 2:56 AM ET

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Indian government has released two Chinese soldiers 41 years after they were captured during a bloody border war between the Asian giants, a senior diplomat told AFP.

The Asian diplomat said Yung Chialung, 61, and Sui Lang, 65, were handed over to Chinese officials July 8 at a state-owned psychiatric institution in the eastern city of Ranchi where they were incarcerated eight years after the 1962 war.

Yung and Sui are believed to be the last prisoners held by either country following the border war.

"The pair are already back in their homes in Sichuan province in southern China," the New Delhi-based diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

"Both India and China had agreed that the handover of the two will remain a secret," the official said.

Yung and Sui, low-ranking soldiers of the the Chinese People's Liberation Army, were taken prisoner in India's North Eastern Frontier Area after a battle that gave the Indian army a bloody nose.

The POWs were first sent to the maximum-security prison of Tihar in New Delhi and then shunted to another prison and finally were lodged at the fortified facility in Ranchi in 1970.

The diplomatic source said the final agreement to release the two reclusive POWs was reached during Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's six-day historic visit to China last month.

An Indian government source confirmed their handover.

"They were handed over to Chinese diplomats who travelled to Ranchi on July 6 and two days later they flew back to China," a highly-placed Indian government source said in New Delhi.

"Now there is not a single Chinese POW in India and as far as we can tell there are no Indian POWs in China," the official added.

The diplomat said the release of the two POWs, who spent 41 years in seclusion due to a language barrier, was taken up seriously only two years ago by the present Chinese ambassador to India, Hua Junduo.

"When Hua came to India two years ago and presented his credentials he came to know about the plight of the two prisoners. He was dismayed and worried and decided to take up the issue with the Indian government," the diplomat said.

"The ambassador deputed diplomats to work on this human issue and then Mr. Vajpayee's talks in China seem to have acted as the final measure which led to their freedom," the diplomat said.

Yung and Sui gave their only known interview three years ago to an AFP correspondent, communicating in sign language inside Ranchi's Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP).

The prisoners spoke of their loneliness at being stuck in a ward full of mentally challenged people in the 10-minute interview which was abruptly cut short by CIP security guards.

During their incarceration, the pair communicated only with doctors but maintained a distance with others and declined to talk to military intelligence agents who tried questioning them through interpreters, CIP sources said.

"No one is certain if there were any special charges against them because everything is so remotely distant now," the Indian source said.

China and India appear to have sorted out their differences over Chinese-ruled Tibet and the Indian state of Sikkim during Vajpayee's trip and are now approaching talks on persistent border disputes.

India accuses China of occupying 38,000 square kilometres (14,670 square miles) of territory in Kashmir while Beijing lays claim to 90,000 square kilometres (34,750 square miles) -- virtually all -- of Arunachal Pradesh, the scene of the war.

 

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38 years after war, two Chinese prisoners wait for freedom in Ranchi hospital
MANOJ PRASAD, Oct 5th, 2000 01:29 PM

RANCHI, JULY 31: Fifty-nine-year-old Yung Chialung sits in the portico of the library of the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Asia's oldest mentalasylum. Memories of a war and forty years of silence are mirrored in his eyes. It has been a long wait, perhaps an endless one for him, a Chinese prisoner of war (PoW) of 1962.

Yung is one of the two Chinese prisoners of the 1962 war lodged in the mental asylum, considered hell even by Bihar standards, ignored by Beijing and New Delhi. Almost four decades and several summits and discussions after the war, these two remain prisoners of solitude and negligence.

Clad in beige-coloured kurta and sky-blue pyjama, Yung looks straight into your eyes and smiles. Perhaps, he is in the cusp of memory and forgetfulness after tortuous years of isolation. He hasn't talked a whole sentence in the last 38 years to any one of the hospital staff as he doesn't know their language.

This former Chinese soldier has been a prisoner within the high walls of the asylum since 1962. Doctors at the institute say that Yung had recovered from a `mild' attack of schizophrenia in 1963. But since he is a PoW of the 1962 Indo-China war, there is no one to take him out of the asylum.

In fact, ever since he was brought to the asylum -- on December 14, 1962-- the hospital authorities have not received any correspondence from either government or army on the prisoner.

His only comfort perhaps is in the fact that he shares a room with a person with whom he can communicate. M A Siblong, 62, was imprisoned by the Indian Army during the war and admitted to this asylum on December 8, 1962. At the Kreplin ward of the government-run institute, they have spent 38 years talking to each other and no one else. They are no longer ill but don't have anywhere to go.

The hospital authorities do not entertain questions on their official status and refuse to show any documents on them. They, however, don't mind speaking about the lifestyle of the two unusual inmates.

Their room is clean. So are their clothes, bed sheets, mattresses and pillows. A nurse who attends on them said: ``Both of them behave gentlemanly and like rice, milk and biscuits.'' Try talking to them, the answer is just a smile to any question. How are you? Don't you want to return to China? Smile.

``Since they don't understand Hindi or English, we converse with them with symbols and gestures,'' she added. Samlong, however, knows two Hindi words: cha (tea) and biskoot.

Both of them are aging but agile. While Yung walked briskly, Samlong limped. ``He had slipped and injured his right leg,'' said the nurse while the hospital director D Ram nodded.

The two prisoners of a forgotten war -- who wouldn't have even come to know about the death of Mao and Deng -- wait for Beijing's call while Ranchi's nightmarish asylum wait for help. From anyone.