Hmar students’ body urges media to restrain itself

The Hmar Students’ Association (HSA) has strongly reacted to a news item. The report said Arabinda Bhatacharjee, Central Assistant Secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad alleged that the Christian missionaries were in a conspiracy to create panic amongst the Dimasas in the ethnic clashes between the Dimasas and the Hmars.
Lallawmthang Hmar and Herald Brown Joute, president and secretary of the HSA, Barak valley respectively dismissed the allegation and made it clear that the “missionaries are totally uninvolved in the recent crisis in North Cachar Hills.” Terming the allegations as “totally baseless,” the two student leaders said the Church had always been an “instrument of peace” in times of strife and the Church leaders had taken various steps to “restore peace” in the ethnic clashes. Condemning the VHP for trying to paint a “wrong picture” of the crisis by making it a religious issue when it was actually a political one, the two student leaders regretted that such false propaganda had really harmed the noble image of the Church.They said such inflammatory allegations were “a major hindrance” in restoring peace in North Cachar Hills. The HSA urged the newspapers not to report any incident without going for an in-depth study of the issues involved.

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