This week in the North-East Diary, we talk about the violence that erupted in Shillong after the alleged encounter killing of Cherishterfield Thangkhiew, former general secretary of banned separatist organisation Hanniotrap National Liberation Council (HNLC) in Meghalaya.

Meenakshi Tewari and The Wire's national affairs editor Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty also discuss the Assam Cattle Protection Bill 2021 and the firing that happened again on the Assam-Mizoram border.



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