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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Parvaiz BUKHARI

The Herders Caught In India And China's Icy Conflict

Morup Namgyal of the nomadic Changpa tribe says the Indian army prevents his people from grazing their goats in traditional areas now contested by China (Credit: AFP)

Lines on a map once meant little to India's Tibetan herders of the high Himalayas, expertly guiding their goats through even the harshest winters to pastures on age-old seasonal routes.

That stopped in 2020, after troops from nuclear-armed rivals India and China clashed in bitter hand-to-hand combat in the contested high-altitude border lands of Ladakh.

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