Failure of Meghalaya police responsible for unrest & mistrust amongst citizens of State: HITO

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJanuary 23, 2022

The Hynniewtrep Integrated Territorial Organization (HITO) on Sunday holds the failure of the Meghalaya Police department responsible for the present unrest and mistrust amongst the citizens of the State.

The Meghalaya Police has failed to apprehend, arrest and solve the numerous criminal activities in the past and present, the HITO asserted.

 It is premature and incorrect to accuse and insinuate that all assault and criminal activities in the state against the Bengali Community are being done by tribals, according to letter sent by HITO to Sushit who staged a strike at Khyndailad, Shillong.

The letter read, “Who knows this could have been done by your own community or by other undesirable groups or communities to bring a bad name to the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo Community.”

The letter informed Sushit that it is his democratic right to protest according to the permission from the district authorities.

The HITO strongly differed with his views and has taken a serious note of his attempt to mislead and create communal tension in the state by labelling that all the alleged criminal activities in the state are allegedly done by tribals.

The HITO reminded that the non-tribal community are only tenants as per customary laws of the State. They further said it will be helpful if he read the land holding document issued from office of Syiem Mylliem properly especially within the Khasi States as the twenty five khasi states refused to sign the Instrument of Merger and signed only the conditional treaty the Instrument of Accession with an annexed conditional Agreement on 17 Aug 1948.

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The HITO informed since 17 Aug 1948 many severe atrocities have happened against the Khasi people and till today the Instrument of Accession and Annexed Agreement of 17 Aug 1948 (IOA & AA), has not yet found a place in the constitution of India despite democratic demands for implementing the letter and spirit of the treaty.

The State has lost land and people along the India – Bangla border due to illegal Indo Bangla agreement and similarly along the border of Assam and Meghalaya without first concluding the IOA &AA how is Union Ministry of Home Affairs, settling the Assam Meghalaya Boundary when they are ignoring directive of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) order of April 2012 and subsequent letters to the Union Home Ministers in 2014.

This is just a small example of the crisis we face due to lack of sincerity by past and present Government of India and Government of Meghalaya, in fulfilling the treaty agreement IOA & AA signed and accepted by the Govt of India with the twenty five Khasi states on 17 Aug 1948, the letter read.

Based on the agreement the Governor Assam inaugurated our first National Assembly of the Khasi States on 29 April 1949. But the great betrayal took place and a political and constitutional atrocity occured on the Khasi States and its people when the framers of the constitution did not place the IOA & AA of the Khasi States in a special article like 370. Instead a fraud like Sixth Schedule was forced onto the tribals and since then we the khasi people have faced criminal atrocities from the central & state governments legislative onslaught by the past and present governments as till date Rangbah Shnong, Sordar Shnong, Lyngdoh, Syiem, Dolloi and Nokma still do not find mention and respect in constitution of India and they hope during the 75th anniversary of India the constitutional anomaly in the constitution will be righted.

“Hence we hope this background will help you and other non-tribal and tribal citizens to understand the special status of our Khasi States Land compared to other parts of India,” the HITO said.

Why only to highlight the alleged criminal activities against the Bengali community please also highlight the atrocities committed by the Govt of India on the Khasi States by the betrayal on the IOA & AA since last 1950.