NEW DELHI: Assam and Mizoram share a 164.6 km interstate border, and conflicting territorial claims have persisted for a long time. Various dialogues since 1995 to resolve the border dispute have yielded little results. As a result, outbreaks along the border, for various reasons, are not uncommon. Here is everything you need to know.
* Recent clashes occurred throughout the Kolasib district of Mizoram and Cachar of Assam.
* Some Mizo volunteers had set up checkpoints, allegedly on the Assamese side of the border, and allegedly in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
* Assam’s forest officials were allegedly not allowed to go beyond the checkpoint, in a recent incident.
* Mizoram police say some people from Assam threw stones at a group of Mizo on the outskirts of a border village on Saturday night.
* An angry mob from Mizoram’s Vairengte retaliated, setting fire to some 20 temporary bamboo huts and stalls built along NH-306 by Lailapur villagers from Assam.
* Recent clashes occurred throughout the Kolasib district of Mizoram and Cachar of Assam.
* Some Mizo volunteers had set up checkpoints, allegedly on the Assamese side of the border, and allegedly in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
* Assam’s forest officials were allegedly not allowed to go beyond the checkpoint, in a recent incident.
* Mizoram police say some people from Assam threw stones at a group of Mizo on the outskirts of a border village on Saturday night.
* An angry mob from Mizoram’s Vairengte retaliated, setting fire to some 20 temporary bamboo huts and stalls built along NH-306 by Lailapur villagers from Assam.
* Assam’s minister of forests, Parimal Shukla Baidya, who is also the local MLA, said such incidents occur when people on both sides illegally cut trees.
* Some Mizo lawmakers claim that more than 80 percent of the people living along the border are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
* The finger has also been pointed at some politicians trying to take advantage of the Assam elections to be held next year.
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