Meghalaya: KSU demands justice for Mukroh firing victims
First Published: 22nd November, 2023 21:10 IST
Today is the first anniversary of the unfortunate Mukroh firing incident where six people, 5 from Meghalaya and 1 from Assam, were killed in West Jaintia Hills district
he Khasi Students Union today organised a poster campaign seeking justice for the five people from Meghalaya who were killed in the Mukroh firing incident on this day a year ago.
Today is the first anniversary of the unfortunate Mukroh firing incident where six people, 5 from Meghalaya and 1 from Assam, were killed in a firing incident involving Assam forest guards and Assam Police. The incident took place in West Jaintia Hills district.
Speaking exclusively to Northeast Live, KSU general secretary Donald Thabah said, “It is not actually protest, it’s a tribute to five souls of our community who lost their lives upon the unprecedented firing by the Assam forest guards and the Assam police. Their villages were harmed by the police and forest guard upon indiscriminate firing on this day, last year, due to which five people from our community lost their lives.”
“Last year also we had organised protest and as we can see from time to time that even after Mukroh incident there are clashes happening in the border areas between Meghalaya and Assam. Recently, it had happened in Khanduli village that there was stone pelting between two communities along the Assam-Meghalaya border. So what we feel is that we have to pay tribute to these five souls”, Thabah added.
“Our people residing along the border areas are living in fear and are without security. There are no police personnel protecting them and if they go to harvest their crops, they are harassed. Such incidents happen time and again”, he claimed.
He further added that even though the governments of Assam and Meghalaya have decided to hand over the Mukroh probe to the CBI, there has been no end to conflicts along the inter-state border leading to the harassment of people on the Meghalaya side.
It may be mentioned that Assam and Meghalaya governments recently decided to hand over the investigation into the November 22, 2022 Mukroh firing incident to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) during the CM-level border talks.
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