SHILLONG: Following the recent assault of Michael Warjri, Secretary, Hima Nongspung Syiemship, and a resident at Balakawa Village along Assam- Meghalaya Border) under Jirang C&RD, Ri Bhoi District, the chairman of the Grand Council of Chiefs of Meghalaya, John F Kharshiing on Thursday shot off a letter to the Chief Minister requesting him to constitute a Meghalaya State Commission on Inter-State Boundary.
In a memorandum to Conrad Sangma, Kharshiing said that Meghalaya State Commission on Inter-State Boundary, could be mandated to look into the challenges that keep arising due to the status quo and difficulty in resolving the Assam-Meghalaya Boundary dispute for the last 67 years since Independence.
“From time to time our people are compelled to face conflict situation and tension along Border areas especially areas under dispute with Assam and Bangladesh,” he said.
He further added that the non-resolution of the treaty agreement and delay in defining the true jurisdiction of the ” Khasi States” as described in the First Schedule, and based on the Instrument of Accession and Annexed Agreement of 17 August 1948, is another cause for these human rights violation at the border areas.
“We urge the Government to take strong action against those criminals who have taken law into their hands and to provide immediate relief to those affected and to take urgent steps for the release of Michael Warjri, who, we now have learnt, has been wrongly put in Jail by the Assam Police,” Kharshiing added.