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Karbi Insurgency

Posted on February 25, 2021 by admin1  53

Context –Recently,1,040 insurgents of five militant groups of Karbi Anglong district ceremonially laid down arms at an event in Guwahati.

About –

  • These militants belonged to five organisations — the People’s Democratic Council of Karbi Longri (PDCK), the Karbi Longri NC Hills Liberation (KLNLF), the Karbi People’s Liberation Tiger (KPLT), the Kuki Liberation Front (KLF) and the United People’s Liberation Army (UPLA).
  • The insurgents, led by PDCK chief Ingti Kathar Songbijit (IK Songbijit), a primary accused in multiple cases of militancy and ethnic violence in the state.
  • They were primarily operating in Assam’s hills districts – Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong.
  • The development comes a year after the Modi government signed the Bodo peace accord bringing an end to the long violent movement for a separate Bodoland.

About Karbi insurgency

  •  Karbi a major ethnic community of Assam
  • The Karbi insurgency is one of the several insurgencies that Assam has faced over the years.
  • The insurgency started by several factions and splinters which have been marked by killings, ethnic violence, abductions and taxation since the late 1980s.
  • These outfits originated from the core demand of forming a separate state
  • Several clashes have broken out between various tribes in Karbi over the years.

Reasons –

  • The entire political discourse in this constituency revolves around the demand for granting of “Autonomous State” status to the region and more autonomy and power to the KAAC and the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (which administers over Dima Hasao district).
  • The significance of the surrender
  • “It’s a very significant development, for Karbi Anglong or Assam and also for Nagaland.
  • It means that all insurgent outfits of Karbi Anglong district have now been brought into the mainstream which will reduce the influence of Naga militant outfits in Assam.
  • It will ensure a life of dignity and respect for those who have surrendered arms by facilitating opportunities for livelihood and employment.

Karbis –

  • The Karbis mentioned as the Mikirs in the Constitution Order, Govt. of India, constitute an important ethnic group in the hill areas of Assam.
  • However, they never call themselves Mikir but call themselves Karbi and sometimes Arleng which literally means a man.
  • Although at present, they are found to inhabit the Karbi Anglong District, nevertheless, some Karbi inhabited pockets are found in the North Cachar Hills, Kamrup, Morigaon, Nagaon and Sonitpur districts also.

Karbi Anglong District

  • The Karbi Anglong District is situated in the central part of Assam, bounded by  the state of Nagaland and Golaghat district in the east, Hojai district in the west, Golaghat and Nagaon district in the north and N.C. Hills district and Nagaland in the south.
  • The district with dense tropical forest-covered hills and flat plains
  • Karbi Anglong is geographically divided into two parts — East Karbi Anglong (EKA) and West Karbi Anglong (WKA) — with its administrative headquarters located at Diphu town in EKA.
  • The Karbi Anglong District Council (KADC), which looks after safeguarding the rights of the tribal people, was upgraded to Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) in April 1995.
    • The Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) is an autonomous district council, protected under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
      • The Sixth Schedule allows the constitution of autonomous district councils in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram to safeguard the rights of the tribal population.

Source :IE


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