Guwahati: In a fresh incident of arson and ethnic violence, unidentified gunmen killed at least three persons, kidnapped another and set ablaze over 90 houses belonging to Zemi Naga tribe, in Gailung village in the strife-torn North Cachar Hills district of Assam on Monday. Militants attacked the village under Maibang police station by automatic weapons, killing at least three persons, police said.
According to an official source, suspected armed miscreants raided Hindu Basti and Christain Basti at remote Guilung village and Jalwa village about 33 kilometers away from Maibang and set fire reducing over 90 houses to ashes.
President of Indigenous People’s Forum, Josiaf Zemi, alleged lack of security in the area and stated that if such attacks
continued, the tribal people would not be able to till their fields this season that would lead to starvation later in the year.
DL Bathari, president of Jadekhe Naiso Hosom (Dima tribe apex body) blamed the state government for failing to providing security to all tribes in the violence-affected hill district. He said that not a single minister of the state had so far bothered to visit the hill district that was staring at wide scale ethnic clashes.
The situation in the hill district which had witnessed serious ethnic violence in the past, is now tense following incidents of ethnic clashes in different parts.
The root cause of the disturbance has been the move to rename the hill district as Dima Hasao Raji after the dominant Dimasa tribe, a move opposed by all other non-Dimasa tribes in the district including Zemi Naga, Hmar, Kuki, Karbi.
Source: http://www.theshillongtimes.com/
According to an official source, suspected armed miscreants raided Hindu Basti and Christain Basti at remote Guilung village and Jalwa village about 33 kilometers away from Maibang and set fire reducing over 90 houses to ashes.
President of Indigenous People’s Forum, Josiaf Zemi, alleged lack of security in the area and stated that if such attacks
continued, the tribal people would not be able to till their fields this season that would lead to starvation later in the year.
DL Bathari, president of Jadekhe Naiso Hosom (Dima tribe apex body) blamed the state government for failing to providing security to all tribes in the violence-affected hill district. He said that not a single minister of the state had so far bothered to visit the hill district that was staring at wide scale ethnic clashes.
The situation in the hill district which had witnessed serious ethnic violence in the past, is now tense following incidents of ethnic clashes in different parts.
The root cause of the disturbance has been the move to rename the hill district as Dima Hasao Raji after the dominant Dimasa tribe, a move opposed by all other non-Dimasa tribes in the district including Zemi Naga, Hmar, Kuki, Karbi.
Source: http://www.theshillongtimes.com/
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