An age-old border dispute between Assam and Mizoram has flared up once again, triggering violent clashes that left several people on both sides wounded and forced the Centre to intervene and play mediator between the two states.
The violence along the border in Assam’s Cachar, adjacent to Kolasib in Mizoram, is the latest in a series of inter-state border skirmishes in the Northeast where all states have multiple unresolved boundary disputes with their neighbours.