Aizawl, Feb 8 (PTI) Leaders of the Indian National Trust
for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Mizoram chapter today
said that the Government of India would soon issue an interim
order to declare Vangchhia village in Mizoram-Mynammar border
Champhai district where 170 menhirs were protected as an
important place.
Addressing a press conference here, INTACH leaders said
that the Archaeological Survey of India, after on the spot
study of the site decided that the village deserved to be
regarded as a monument of national importance.
"The village would make Mizoram appearing in the
Archaeological map of India," they said, adding that experts
found the menhirs as quite unique.
INTACH leaders also said that the fight to restore the
two historic cannons to the Mizo people continued.
The two cannons used in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
have been kept in Aizawl since 1892 were taken away by the
first battalion of the Assam Rifles in 2003 regarding them as
a war trophy won by them.
The INTACH claimed that the two big guns have immense
historical importance and attachment to the Mizo people and
the state and are of high heritage value and should be
restored to the rightful owners - the people of Mizoram.