[“We have asked all Nepalese settlers to leave Jaintia Hills district within one week starting from 0500 hours Monday in protest against the killing of four Khasi villagers at the behest of the Nepalese settlers there,” DL Rymbai, President of the Jaintia Youth Federation (JYF), one of the seven organisations which issued the eviction notice, was quoted as saying.]
The ethnic Khasi community in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya has threatened Nepali speaking locals to leave their villages within one week or face consequences, reports say.
According to Indian media reports, the Khasis have asked Nepali speaking people of Langapi and Juwai area to leave the villages following violent clashes on Sunday.
Seven people of Khasi community were killed when police opened fire to control a dispute between the Nepali and the Khasi community in Langapi at the border of Meghalaya and Assam.
Although, there used to disputes between the Nepali and the Khasi community since many years, the bitterness between the two communities got aggravated after Sunday's incident.
“We have asked all Nepalese settlers to leave Jaintia Hills district within one week starting from 0500 hours Monday in protest against the killing of four Khasi villagers at the behest of the Nepalese settlers there,” DL Rymbai, President of the Jaintia Youth Federation (JYF), one of the seven organisations which issued the eviction notice, was quoted as saying.
Security was tightened across Meghalaya following the announcements.
There is a sizeable Nepalese population in certain pockets of Meghalaya and most of them working in the coalfields.
Nepalis are in a minority in Meghalaya with 2.6 percent of the total population with sizeable Nepalese in certain pockets of Meghalaya with most of them working in the coalfields.
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