NEW DELHI—Chinese citizens and Chinese soldiers in plainclothes entered Indian territory in the winter pasture of Cakzung on Dec. 16, according to Konchok Stanzin, a native of a nearby village and the councilor of a group of villages in the Ladakh Union Territory. Cakzung is a high altitude winter grazing pasture land in the Nyoma constituency in the trans-Himalayan Indian region of Ladakh. Dokpa [nomads in the Ladakhi language] migrate for pastures with their pashmina goats, sheep, yak, and horse, following a centuries-old lifestyle and profession. “Because of livestock disease, our Changpa [tribe] nomads didn’t go to Cakzung for 2-3 years. This year when they went, the Chinese people said you can’t be here because you didn’t come here in the last few years. But this is our area, so why can’t we go there,” Stanzin told The Epoch Times over the phone from Leh, the capital of Ladakh. Stanzin’s Chusul …
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