New Delhi: The riots at the Assam-Mizoram border have had two main ministers and also the concerned ministers involved.
Monday’s flare up was the most cruel, where police personnel Assam lost their lives.
The current tension began at the end of June when Police Assam allegedly took control of an area known as ‘Aitlanghnar,’ accusing Mizoram to explore his territory.
Since then there have been repeated clashes between the strengths and people of the two states around the disputed area.
The Minister of Home Union Amit Shah has asked the minister’s chairman to ensure peace on the border.
Browse the root disputes brought us back to the 1830s, and colonial historical days.
Three Assam District – Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimanj – together shared the border of 164.6 km with Kolastic, Mamit and Aizawl districts in Mizoram.
Both parties have different perceptions about where the line is located.
The border here is an imaginary line through rivers, hills, valleys and forests.
Over the years, what began as a geographical problem is now also an ethnic problem.
Here are important points of the Assam-Mizoram border dispute: the development of colonial & post-independence inheritance: * British told the cachar kingdom in 1832, and introduced the Inner Line Regulation (ILR) in 1875 to separate the Mizo region of Mizo.
, * Formful limit in 1933 – but the process did not involve Mizos, and they refused to recognize the agreement.
* After independence, in 1971, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh were carved from Assam.
* Mizoram made a country in 1987 after mizo peace laziness between Mizos and the center.
The basis for the country is a 1933 agreement, but Mizos insisted that the 1875 ILR border was what they received.
* Agreement between Assam and Mizoram to maintain the status quo on the ground without men along the border does not end the dispute.
Ethnic Overtones: * Many residents on the side of Assam Border are Bengalis, especially Muslims, who with Mizos’s views with suspicion, allegating that they are non-documented migrants and will land illegally in their country.
* In countries such as Mizoram, the population of Muslims grew by 122.54 percent between 1991-2001; But considering their low population in absolute quantities, this is not too significant.
Muslims are only 1.3% of the total population in Mizoram