AIZAWL, March 25 – People of Mizoram have accepted demarcation of Mizoram-Assam boundary as notified by the British India Government in 1875 and should unitedly strive for settlement of the border dispute till the end, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said in the Assembly yesterday.
At a discussion on Assam-Miozoram boundary dispute during the question hour, Thanhawla said the demarcation of Mizoram-Assam border by the Assam Government in 1933 was not acceptable to the Mizos as they were never consulted before issuing the notification on March 9, 1933.
Opposition members also echoed the same sentiments saying the boundary as demarcated by the Governor General in Council and notified in 1875 should be accepted as the inter-State boundary between the two neighbouring States.
Border dispute between the two States had triggered a plethora of incidents and the Mizoram Government deployed additional police force along the Mizoram-Karimganj district border recently due to fresh incidets of “intimidation” by Assam officials at Phaisen village.
Mizoram Assembly had unanimously adopted an official resolution on March 9, 2006 urging the Centre to constitute a Boundary Commission to solve the vexed boundary dispute and an all-party delegation had submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister in 2007 in the matter. – PTI
Arms racket busted in Mizoram
Silchar, March 23: Mizoram police busted a gang of international arms smugglers after arresting a Chin tribal from Myanmar who was on his way to deliver rocket launchers to militants in the Northeast.
The police in Aizawl said the kingpin of the racket, Khatsi Anpao, 43, was apprehended from an Aizawl-bound bus coming from Champhai town on Mizoram’s border with Myanmar on Saturday morning.
He was carrying a bag which was stacked with the five high-power rocket launchers.
Anpao’s interrogation led to the arrest of three more members of the gang, identified as Jesuma, Liana and Mongia, from Champhai, sources said. All four are based at Tiddim in northwest Myanmar.
The police suspect that the arms were being taken to Cachar district in south Assam en route to the adjoining North Cachar Hills district, a beehive of insurgency since the early nineties.
In another development, Cachar police apprehended two cadres of the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Gorlosa) who told interrogators that they had been sent to the district to procure arms for the outfit. The two have been identified as Mono Naiding, 21, and M. Marak, 26.
The police here are trying to find out if the DHD (J) activists were sent to pick up the rocket launchers which the police suspect would have been taken to Cachar district via National Highway 54, the gateway to Mizoram from Cachar, by the Myanmarese arms peddlers.
This is the second arms haul in Mizoram involving Chin traffickers.
The police had seized a consignment of AK-47 rifles and ammunition during a raid at Siphir town near Aizawl on June 26 last year.
They had arrested at least three persons, including an arms dealer and druglord, Lal Liana, 41, a resident of Tiddim town in Chin hills in Myanmar, in this connection.
A cache of 26 rocket launchers were also recovered from the suitcases of the three arms merchants when the police carried out raids on a Tata 707 convertible and a bus at Vairengte on the Mizoram-Assam boundary on June 28 last year.
(Source: The Telegraph)
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At a discussion on Assam-Miozoram boundary dispute during the question hour, Thanhawla said the demarcation of Mizoram-Assam border by the Assam Government in 1933 was not acceptable to the Mizos as they were never consulted before issuing the notification on March 9, 1933.
Opposition members also echoed the same sentiments saying the boundary as demarcated by the Governor General in Council and notified in 1875 should be accepted as the inter-State boundary between the two neighbouring States.
Border dispute between the two States had triggered a plethora of incidents and the Mizoram Government deployed additional police force along the Mizoram-Karimganj district border recently due to fresh incidets of “intimidation” by Assam officials at Phaisen village.
Mizoram Assembly had unanimously adopted an official resolution on March 9, 2006 urging the Centre to constitute a Boundary Commission to solve the vexed boundary dispute and an all-party delegation had submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister in 2007 in the matter. – PTI
Arms racket busted in Mizoram
Silchar, March 23: Mizoram police busted a gang of international arms smugglers after arresting a Chin tribal from Myanmar who was on his way to deliver rocket launchers to militants in the Northeast.
The police in Aizawl said the kingpin of the racket, Khatsi Anpao, 43, was apprehended from an Aizawl-bound bus coming from Champhai town on Mizoram’s border with Myanmar on Saturday morning.
He was carrying a bag which was stacked with the five high-power rocket launchers.
Anpao’s interrogation led to the arrest of three more members of the gang, identified as Jesuma, Liana and Mongia, from Champhai, sources said. All four are based at Tiddim in northwest Myanmar.
The police suspect that the arms were being taken to Cachar district in south Assam en route to the adjoining North Cachar Hills district, a beehive of insurgency since the early nineties.
In another development, Cachar police apprehended two cadres of the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Gorlosa) who told interrogators that they had been sent to the district to procure arms for the outfit. The two have been identified as Mono Naiding, 21, and M. Marak, 26.
The police here are trying to find out if the DHD (J) activists were sent to pick up the rocket launchers which the police suspect would have been taken to Cachar district via National Highway 54, the gateway to Mizoram from Cachar, by the Myanmarese arms peddlers.
This is the second arms haul in Mizoram involving Chin traffickers.
The police had seized a consignment of AK-47 rifles and ammunition during a raid at Siphir town near Aizawl on June 26 last year.
They had arrested at least three persons, including an arms dealer and druglord, Lal Liana, 41, a resident of Tiddim town in Chin hills in Myanmar, in this connection.
A cache of 26 rocket launchers were also recovered from the suitcases of the three arms merchants when the police carried out raids on a Tata 707 convertible and a bus at Vairengte on the Mizoram-Assam boundary on June 28 last year.
(Source: The Telegraph)
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