GUWAHATI, May 3 - The All Assam Students� Union (AASU) today vehemently condemned the incident of police firing on a group of anti-mega dam protestors at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh yesterday and stated that no kind of repressive measures would be able to gag the voice of the anti-mega dam protestors of the Northeast region.
In a statement released here, Dipanka Kumar Nath and Lurin Jyoti Gogoi, the president and general secretary of the students� body, respectively, have demanded that the Central Government should initiate steps to engage experts for undertaking scientific study of the mega dam river projects proposed to be set up in the region. The students� body has been spearheading a State-wide anti-mega dam agitation for the past several years, together with 25 other organisations.
The yesterday�s Tawang incident has proved that the people of Arunachal Pradesh are worried over the issue of mega dam projects.
The Central Government must involve the experts of the NE region, the other parts of the country and abroad, to study the cumulative impacts of the mega dam river projects proposed to be set up in the Northeast region on Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, said the AASU leaders.
It�s worth mentioning that at around 4 pm yesterday, the police opened fire on a group of protestors at Tawang, who assembled in front of the Tawang Police Station to lodge their protest against the arrest of Lama Lobsang Gyatso. Though officially it is stated that two people were killed in the incident, unconfirmed reports state that four people, including a Buddhist Lama, succumbed to their bullet injuries in the incident.
Lama Lobsang Gyatso is leading an anti-mega dam agitation in the Mon-Tawang Region of Arunachal Pradesh. He is the secretary of the Save Mon Region Federation (SMRF), an organisation of the Monpa community in the Mon-Tawang region. The SMRF is led by the Buddhist Lamas. The SMRF has been advocating socio-culturally and ecologically sensitive development in the Mon-Tawang region.
GUWAHATI, May 3 - The All Assam Students� Union (AASU) today vehemently condemned the incident of police firing on a group of anti-mega dam protestors at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh yesterday and stated that no kind of repressive measures would be able to gag the voice of the anti-mega dam protestors of the Northeast region.
In a statement released here, Dipanka Kumar Nath and Lurin Jyoti Gogoi, the president and general secretary of the students� body, respectively, have demanded that the Central Government should initiate steps to engage experts for undertaking scientific study of the mega dam river projects proposed to be set up in the region. The students� body has been spearheading a State-wide anti-mega dam agitation for the past several years, together with 25 other organisations.
The yesterday�s Tawang incident has proved that the people of Arunachal Pradesh are worried over the issue of mega dam projects.
The Central Government must involve the experts of the NE region, the other parts of the country and abroad, to study the cumulative impacts of the mega dam river projects proposed to be set up in the Northeast region on Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, said the AASU leaders.
It�s worth mentioning that at around 4 pm yesterday, the police opened fire on a group of protestors at Tawang, who assembled in front of the Tawang Police Station to lodge their protest against the arrest of Lama Lobsang Gyatso. Though officially it is stated that two people were killed in the incident, unconfirmed reports state that four people, including a Buddhist Lama, succumbed to their bullet injuries in the incident.
Lama Lobsang Gyatso is leading an anti-mega dam agitation in the Mon-Tawang Region of Arunachal Pradesh. He is the secretary of the Save Mon Region Federation (SMRF), an organisation of the Monpa community in the Mon-Tawang region. The SMRF is led by the Buddhist Lamas. The SMRF has been advocating socio-culturally and ecologically sensitive development in the Mon-Tawang region.
