SHILLONG: Another Garo militant outfit — United People’s Revolutionary Alliance (UPRA) — has emerged out of the blue and has started issuing quit notices to illegal encroachers from outside especially in the plain belt areas of Garo Hills.
The new militant outfit which has its headquarters in an undisclosed location called ‘Chusimra’ claimed that Garo Hills was being overrun by illegal encroachers from outside which was due to the ‘special favours’ being given by MLAs and politicians in their respective constituencies by enabling them to get hold of job cards, ration cards, election IDs etc.
The outfit made special mention about the initiative being taken by the Meghalaya Police to create ‘Force 10’ — a new security unit — to tackle militancy in Garo Hills and claimed that politicians were helping the illegal encroachers to get recruited into it.
“We are issuing ‘quit notices’ to all illegal encroachers in Garo Hills. They must leave Garo Hills within the next 10 days, otherwise we will resort to our own course of action,” the chairman of the outfit Tattara Matgrik said in a statement.
