LoC-like situation, police pointing guns at each other — images from Assam-Mizoram border

[Zarvan]

LoC-like situation, police pointing guns at each other — images from Assam-Mizoram border

ThePrint brings you images from Kulichera on the Assam-Mizoram border, where both states have been laying claim to a five-km stretch of land.

PRAVEEN JAIN and ANANYA BHARDWAJ 4 August, 2021 11:05 am IST

Mizoram Police post at Kulichera on Assam-Mizoram border | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint
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Silchar (Assam): It is raining heavily and the stretch leading to Kulichera, another major flashpoint between the two states, where border outposts of Assam Police and Mizoram Police are situated is smeared in mud.

The two posts, barely 50 m apart, are separated by a nullah, and it’s a LoC-like situation — police personnel eyeball to eyeball, with automatic weapons pointed right at each other.


A rickety bamboo bridge connects the two posts and all personnel have been instructed to not leave the posts unguarded at any point.

At this battlefront-like border, tensions between the two states have been simmering for nearly a year. It is at Kulichera on the Assam-Mizoram border where both states have been laying claim to a five-km stretch of land.

It all began last year in November, when miscreants from Mizoram allegedly bombed a lower primary school, which was constructed by the Assam government in 2009, claiming that it was built on their land. Then, on 8 July, Assam started building a pucca road in the area, leading to the school, claiming the area to be their territory, to which Mizoram objected and built a new post ahead of the school.









In fact, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel deployed in the area were anticipating a flare-up at this border and had alerted the Ministry of Home Affairs just a week before the 26 July clash at Varaingte-Lailapur border.

ThePrint’s photo editor Praveen Jain brings you images from yet another sensitive Assam-Mizoram border area.

The Mizoram Police post (left) and the Assam border post at Kulichera are separated by just a nullah | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Assam Police personnel at their border post in Kulichera | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Mizoram Police personnel keep an eye on the Assam post | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

CRPF jawans heading towards Mizoram border post at Kulichera | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Mizoram Police personnel keep an eye on Assam post | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

CRPF jawans communicating with Mizoram Police via phone at Kulichera post | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

CRPF jawans at Kulichera post | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Mizoram Police personnel keep an eye on movement of Assam Police force | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

A view of Assam Police camp at Kulichera | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

A view of Mizoram Police camp at Kulichera | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

A Mizoram Police personnel inspecting his rifle | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Another post of Assam Police personnel at Kulichera | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

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LoC-like situation, police pointing guns at each other — images from Assam-Mizoram border (theprint.in)

 

[SQ8]

Did these guys want to play pretend to be an army?

As part of a sovereign state this is at most to be resolved in the supreme court - not making nullah LoCs

 

[mazeto]

It may sound ironic, but this incident is one of the explanations why India sticks together inspite of its contradictions--- the different "nationalities" get a modicum of autonomy, upto commanding it's own police and paramilitary as seen in this shootout. Many Insurgencies and insurrections ( eg Mizo insurgency) were extinguished not by the gun but by giving them more control of their own destinies.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

It may sound ironic, but this incident is one of the explanations why India sticks together inspite of its contradictions--- the different "nationalities" get a modicum of autonomy, upto commanding it's own police and paramilitary as seen in this shootout. Many Insurgencies and insurrections ( eg Mizo insurgency) were extinguished not by the gun but by giving them more control of their own destinies.

for Kashmir the process was reversed expecting same results.

 

[mazeto]

for Kashmir the process was reversed expecting same results.

Correct, the opposite was done for Kashmir. As a minority myself I shudder to think what will happen if our protective legislation ( called ILP) which prevents others from moving in freely, is withdrawn.

 

[The Eagle]

Did these guys want to play pretend to be an army?

As part of a sovereign state this is at most to be resolved in the supreme court - not making nullah LoCs

Worst than nullah state given the discriminant and grievances against center. Assamis are already in political conflict with center especially the extremists ruling Delhi. I think since there is growing concern for long; they aren't serious to settle the matter through legal means or point if jurisdiction.

 

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

There is no such thing as harmony among the different Indian States, Even Hindutva has failed to bind these historically enemy nations. A day will come when every state in this artificial country will be at loggerheads with each other.