Newmai News Network Aizawl | October 4 Hmar leaders both from Mizoram and Manipur sans the Hmar People Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) have arrived in Aizawl this evening to hold the second round of peace talks with the Mizoram Government. The peace talks will be held on tomorrow (October 5) at the Guest House in Aizawl from 10 am. Sources said the Hmar leaders, upon arrival in Aizawl, discussed "things" with HPC-D military leader Lalropuia Famhoite and other HPC-D "officials" lodged at the Central Jail in the Mizoram capital. The HPC (D) has been demanding a separate Autonomous District Council in the north eastern part of Mizoram under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India and has been indulging in violent activities to press their demands from across the Manipur border. Talking to Newmai News Network in Aizawl this evening, former Hmar Inpui president Dr John Pulamte said that this time they will hold the peace talks with the Mizoram Government without the HPC-D leaders. Other leaders in the Hmar delegation are church leader Lalthalien, human rights activists David Buhril and Thanglianchhunga, Hmar Students’ Association Assembly Speaker Lalthlamuana Hmar and former Sinlung Hills Development Council chairman Lalmalsawma Darngawn. It can be recalled here that during the peace talks held on August 10, 216, the Hmar delegation had reiterated their demand for the creation of a separate Autonomous District Council in the Hmar inhabited area in north Mizoram adjoining Manipur under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India. The peace talks between Mizoram government and HPC (D) was resumed on August 10, three years after a stalemate in 2013. The last talks held in 2013 had fizzled out due to disagreement over the period of extension of Suspension of Operation (SoO).
