Nyishis seek
protection from Bodos
Nyishi
leaders
in Arunachal Pradesh demanded deployment of police reinforcements at
Seijusa in East Kameng district where the community was being allegedly
bearing the brunt of Bodo atrocities.
In
a memorandum to Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Mukut Mithi, the Nyishi
Elite Society (NES) alleged that the Nyishis “were being subjected to
Bodo atrocities including extortion and kidnapping for ransom in recent
months”. Other demands of NES included immediate transfer of East Kameng
SP and officer-in-charge of Seijusa police station. NES president Dr Ligu
Tacho secretary Techi Nuykum and All Nyishi Students Union president gave
a call to ‘socially boycott’ Bodos living and working in Arunachal
Pradesh and sought the State and the Central governments’ intervention
against the ‘atrocities’. The leaders claimed that Nyishis, living in
five districts of Arunachal, had been regularly extorted and kidnapped for
ransom by Bodos from neighbouring Assam. The decision for social boycott
of the Bodos was taken at a joint emergency meeting, they said adding as a
first step all Bodos engaged as domestic workers in Nyishi families would
be released with immediate effect. The leaders urged the State and the
Union governments to take note of the ‘ethnic divide’ and take
appropriate action “before the tolerance of Nyishi community crossed the
limit”. A peace meeting was held in 1999 between the Nyishis and Bodos.
But the Bodos had violated all the clauses of agreement reached, the
Nyishi leaders claimed. The Nyishis had recently submitted at least three
memoranda to Mithi on the alleged Bodo torture.
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