Aizawl / Silchar / Guwahati: Trucks from other countries rumbled to Mizoram on the disputed border with neighbor Assam on Saturday night, about 12 days after bloody clashes between police forces from two countries.
The truck driver who has parked their trucks in Dholy near the tense border and refused to move even after the informal blockade that was enforced by the locals had been appointed, began to move important inventory including medicines, diesel gas and cooking after two ministers Ashok Suklabaidya on Saturday Convincing them that it is safe to travel across the border to Mizoram.
Clastic supervisor of Police (SP), Vanlalfaka Ralte said more than 50 vehicles had entered Mizoram since Saturday night until Sunday morning.
“The traffic movement between the two neighboring countries has been quite smooth …
However, we are still vigilant because of an unwanted incident at any time,” Ralte, who camped in Vairengte, told PTI by telephone.
Police Cachar Supervisors Ramandeep Kaur also confirmed to the PTI that the vehicle “has moved under a heavy police escort.
Although at first there were several resistance from the local population, after the two ministers held negotiations, the vehicle began to move.” The Mizoram home connector officer Silchar (Lo) KAPTLUANGA said that before the truck began seriously, several vehicles were bound by Mizoram being attacked and damaged by criminals in Lailapur on Saturday evenning.
The development occurred after Minister Assam and Mizoram met last week to issue a difference and agree to maintain peace along the border and resolve their differences peacefully.
But some drivers remain reluctant to move their vehicles across the border.
Rahul Hussain, a stranded driver, said they were “willing to enter Mizoram” but demanded a written guarantee for the protection that will be given last month, at least six Assam police personnel and one civilian killed and more than 50 people were injured in the fire-figh t between police Two countries on July 26, which broke out on the border of Cachar Assam with Mizoram.
Both states shared borders 164.6 km between Cachar Assam, Karimanji and Karimganj District, and District of Claid, Mizit and Aizawl Mizoram.
The two countries have different interpretations of their territorial borders.
While Mizoram believes that its borders are located along the ‘lines’ compiled in 1875 to protect tribes from outside influence, Assam was passed by demarcation of the district conducted in the 1930s.