Shillong, Nov 22: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) on Wednesday resorted to a poster campaign to pay tribute to the five victims killed in the Mukroh firing incident, in 2022.
KSU general secretary Donald V Thabah told reporters that it is not a protest ‘but a tribute to the five fallen souls of our community, who have lost their lives due to the unprecedented firing by the Assam police and forest guards.”
“The tribute is also to remind our people that our borders are still not yet properly demarcated. People residing along the interstate border are living in fear and are without security as no police personnel are protecting them,” he said.
The KSU leader criticised the state government for ordering the police to remove the tribute posters.
He said, “This baffled us as to why is the government of Meghalaya doing this because it is merely a tribute campaign to remember the lost souls and to speak to the people that the fight is still going on.”
According to the KSU leader, even after the Mukroh incident, there are still skirmishes in Meghalaya-Assam border reminding the recent incident that took place at Khanduli where people from two communities engaged in stone pelting against each other.
“We have also seen certain groups in Assam have claimed places like Khanduli, Mukroh, Lapangap, Psiar, Khatkhasla they all fall under Assam but we would also like to make a strong statement that those are areas are being resided by Khasi people and the fields also belong to the Khasis so they should fall under the state of Meghalaya because if we give those lands to Assam then the very concept of a hill state is a failure,” he added.
