HILLONG: A year after the draft peace pact, a tripartite meeting among the ANVC and its breakaway faction, the State and Central Government officials will be held on Thursday here to ensure that there is conducive atmosphere in Garo Hills before arriving at a permanent settlement.
Top leaders of ANVC and ANVC-B, officials of the home departments of State and Centre will attend the meet.
The meeting was necessitated due to the ongoing mistrust between the ANVC and ANVC-B cadres and also due o the widespread condemnation over the recent killing of four ANVC-B cadres by the police.
The meeting will also scrutinize the ground reality after the draft peace pact was signed in January last year.
The defect of the meeting held on January 5 last year was that before signing any ceasefire with the ANVC-B militant outfit, both the Centre and the State hurriedly signed the draft peace pact with an eye on the Assembly elections held last year.
In the absence of any ceasefire agreement with ANVC-B, police was given a freehand to hunt for the criminal elements in ANVC-B which often resulted in bloodshed.
Unlike the parent organization ANVC, the ANVC-B did not give details about the number of cadres and the names of designated camps.
An official source said on Wednesday that the meeting will discuss the need on the part of ANVC-B to submit the list of its cadres, weapons and the number of designated camps.
Another worry for both the Centre and the State is that too many cadres have deserted the parent organization ANVC. Recently, some cadres who deserted ANVC formed the new outfit, Achik Tiger Force.