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January 2019 issue

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The rescue operations for the 14th miner trapped in coal mines of East Jaintia Hills which happened on 13th December 2018 have failed in all aspects. The rescue teams as well as public have put blame on the State Government and District Administration in failing to provide tools and equipments for the operation. It has been over two weeks since the incident and families of the victims still throng to the site with hopes to see their bread earner one more time. Till filing this report, neither the Chief Minister nor the Minister of Disaster, Government of Meghalaya paid a visit to this area. Though the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been involved since 14th of December 2018, yet it’s Chief, Shri Sanjay Kumar has not yet visited the site.  It is clear that the State Government does not have the equipment or the skills to deal with a disaster like this, even with the involvement of NDRF, the lack of proper equipment and tools such as high powered pumps have failed the rescue operation in every way. Instead of using 100 hp pumps, the NDRF were only supplied with ten (25 hp pumps) out of which eight of them broke on the third day of rescue. State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) Inspector N. Nonglang said that with the current scenario of the water, only high-powered pumps can help the teams to reduce the water level in the mines. The Government of Meghalaya and District Administrative should collectively take blames regarding this failure to save the lives of those 14 nameless miners in East Jaintia Hills.
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Mizoram began to experience Electoral politics with the formation of Mizo Union (MU) as the first political party on 9th April, 1946 and it was followed by the formation of another political party known as United Mizo Freedom Organisation (UMFO) in the next year on 5th July, 1947. Mizoram since 1948 has no poll related violence. As a matter of fact, security forces are employed only for performance of official duty. While killing, violence, rigging and many unfair practices are common in elections in other states of India in general and the neighbouring states in particular, all those unfair and evil practices are unknown totally in Mizoram. One of the reasons for continuous conduct of free and fair poll is due to influence of church and good Christian teaching. 

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There is quite a lot of excitement in Assam, especially in the Brahmaputra valley for the past few months following the ongoing protest rallies against one major and sensitive issue concerning the indigenous people in the State, the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.  The indigenous people have been opposing to this Bill ever since it was introduced in the Parliament on July 19, 2016. Why? They are apprehensive that if the Bill is passed in the Parliament, they will not only lose their language, culture but will also be reduced to a minority in their own land.

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There is no denial that Human Rights defenders who challenge big corporations are being killed, assaulted, harassed and suppressed in growing numbers every year. North East India, in particular, is the most volatile region where human rights violations have taken a serious proportion. One such example can be exempted from the recent attack on two women activists, the incident, which shook the humanity and the entire Northeast. It can be compared to the heinous crime of mob lynching, attacked by approx or more than 40 people against the activists, who were on the mission to burst the racket of coal mafia encircling the entire Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya.

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