Pl. don't test our resilience Article

 PLEASE DON'T TEST OUR RESILIENCE

                         ~Diki Fanai

     

 The question "Who shot first?" is no longer a bone of contention. There is a video clip that reveals the truth. But, another pertinent question has emerged in the continuing  Mizoram/Assam conflict and the rhetorics voiced.Is there an attempt to pull back some of the states in the North- East to the colonial past?We have seen what happened in J&K.

   Lies after lies are being spread about what actually happened on 26th July 2021 at Vairengte within Mizoram on social media and some National channels. Now our Rajya Sabha  member is alleged to be the conspirator and his speech on TV interview as inflamatory. ( Our support to him)

      The CM of Assam said he will deploy 4000 commandos  in the border. Isn't this inflamatory too? He offers Rs 5 lakhs to any person who could identify those who had killed the Assam police men ( Our condolences to the families of the Assam police. It was an unnecessary loss of lives) Does the the CM of Assam think anyone could identify whose bullet hit who in a cross- fire? Could his IGP and the DC who accompanied the 200 policemen and the hundred plus civilians from Lailapur do so? OR Is this the Assam CM's  attempt to humiliate our people and and our policemen hoping that  somebody would jump to the offer and betray his fellow- men. Would they know also? The Assam CM needs to understand the context where cross- firing takes place.

       When the worst Mautam Famine took place in the late 1950s in Mizoram. We were still a district in Assam. A Mizo delegation went down to Gauhati to meet Mr Chaliha ,the then CM of Assam for help. He offered them a sumptuous dinner but they refused because their people( Mizo people) were impacted by the famine. Finally ,at the fag end of the famine,food supply were dropped by air. BUT THE MIZO SURVIVED.

          This was followed by a 20 year long insurgency.

1. Parents who sent their children outside Mizoram  to continue their education to Meghalaya/ Nagaland/ Half long had to bundle their children at the back of  trucks and they were spat upon at Cachar. Coming home for holidays to Mizoram was a test of endurance.The 7 to 8 hours journey only took 1 week escorted by a military convoy. BUT WE SURVIVED.

2. Our villages were burned and the villagers were forced to live at different Village Grouping Centres with minimal sustenance. BUT WE SURVIVED

3. Our Mizo men were arrested in hoards ( civilians) and put in prison. Men in the villages were hung upside down in the open air with chillies burnt under them. BUT WE SURVIVED.

4. Our women were raped and recovered fully without any psychological impact . ( The only one who didn't survive was Vanengzampuii, a mentally retarded woman) who was raped an gagged to death at Chanmari,a locality in Aizawl by the CRPF who were on duty during Curfew hours.Yet WE STILL SURVIVED.

5. To cut it short, when the Peace Accord was signed in 1986, we accepted it with humiliation because we are peace- lovers.

We are intelligent enough to understand the humiliation of being given:-

a) a statehood

b) a Central University

c) a seperate Judicial system as part of the conditions of the Peace Accord. ( None in the states of the Indian Union has earned this with their blood. They were given on  platters.) Bearing our humiliation in Silence WE STILL SURVIVE.

       We are not against the Assamese people. We do have close friends in Assam and all over India who comfort and  support us through their calls now.

    However,the destruction of the railway tracts ,the paid protests and Bandh denote what your strategies are Mr CM of Assam. Do whatever you want. Spread the lies. Continue to make your false allegations. Our RESILIENCE AND DEFIANCE will grow stronger if you continue to touch upon the apples of our eyes. And WE WILL SURVIVE.