IMPHAL, June 8 – The number of displaced Zeme villagers mostly women and children who have been taking shelter in Tousem areas in Manipur’s Tamenglong district have increased following renewed violence in North Cachar Hills district of Assam.
NC Hills continue to be ravaged by violence with the reports of killing of five villagers, besides injuries to eight others and burning down of nearly 60 villages on Wednesday.
People are still fleeing from NC Hills and their number have crossed 800, Jacinta Lazarus, Deputy Commissioner, Tamenglong district told The Assam Tribune.
Since the outbreak of violence in March last, initially over 500 displaced Zeliangrong villagers have arrived and taken shelter at Tousem. However, the number of displaced persons have increased due to fresh violence in NC Hills.
The Manipur Chief Secretary held a meeting with his Assam counterpart to take up necessary steps and provide relief materials, DC said and added that she had also been contacting her Assam counterpart from time to time. A SDO will be going to Tousem to oversee the situation soon, she added. No official team had so far visited the displaced villagers at Tousem area.
Meanwhile, Tousem villagers are worried about the future of the displaced villagers as they are providing food and shelter. “How long can we bear such burden as we don’t get any relief materials from the government,” Agnes Malanglei, in-charge of the Relief Committee said and added that the time has come for the Assam Government to bring normalcy in the NC Hills for the resettlement of the displaced villagers.
According to Agnes, 288 villagers are taking shelter at Tousem, 145 at Aben and 200 at Mandeu villages. Though some of the villagers returned to NC Hills but renewed violence had forced them to come back to Tousem.
On Wednesday, a team of United NGO Mission distributed relief materials to the displaced people.
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