The never ending nationalities of our region.... Student groups vow to safeguard Mizoram territory >From Our Correspondent AIZAWL, Jan 19 After the former underground members, Mizo students have also pledged to safeguard what is believed to be the territory of Mizoram since the British time.
Making it clear that the two sister States, Assam and Mizoram, have a border dispute, the Mizo Zirlai Pawl, the States largest students body, said recently that it would spare no effort to safeguard the true territory of Mizoram. Meanwhile, the Mizo Students Union, a separate body, has expressed full support to the Former Underground Welfare Associations move to protect the territory of Mizoram and said it will extend every possible assistance to the movement. Justifying the acts of two Bairabi MZP activists, who had been in Hailakandi district jail for destroying an Assam Forest department watch tower in the disputed area, the MZP general secretary VL Krosshnehzova said, The MZP will make every effort to see that not an inch of Mizoram territory is lost. The MZP asserted that Mizo chiefs had occupied a large portion of Cachar valley before the British imperialists annexed Cachar in 1832. The Mizo inhabitants of Cachar valley was recognised by the British as Old Kukis, it said. Since the British people wanted to establish tea estates in the valley, they reached an agreement with Mizo chiefs in 1850 according to which Dholai was the boundary point between Cachar and Mizoram, the student leader said. After the 1875 Inner Line Regulation, there was no clear-cut demarcation of boundary between the two states, even when Mizoram (then Lushai Hills) came under Assam as a district council till it attained statehood in 1987. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
