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The 1967 diplomatic horror that Congress erased from history.
When China falsely accused young Indian diplomats K. Raghunath and P. Vijay of spying over a simple photo, they were dragged by their necks, stripped, and brutally beaten by a mob of Red Guards on a Beijing runway.
Red Guards beat and kicked two Indian diplomats in wild scenes at Peking airport to-day before they left by air for Hongkong after being expelled from China accused of spying.
The Second Secretary Mr Krishnan Raghunath and the Third Secretary, Mr. P. Vijay were dragged and pushed, held by the neck and arms among a crowd of Red Guards several hundred strong.
They were punched and kicked and Red Guards waved red books of Mao Tse-tung’s quotations at them. Other Indian diplomats were hit and Third Secretary,
C.V. Ranganathan was made to bow his head by the crowd who tried to force him to kneel on the runway.
Embassy staff who tried to go to the aid of the two expelled, diplomats were manhandled and kept away.
The response from the ruling Congress government? Utter paralysis. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi openly admitted in Parliament that it was “not possible… to outline the steps the government might take.”
From the complete surrender of 1967 to the 2008 secret MoU signed with the Chinese Communist Party with Rahul Gandhi right at the table the paper trail of appeasement is clear.

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