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Mayalmit Lepcha has watched with dread as successive governments have sanctioned dams in the state despite its fragile geography.

The damage caused by the glacial lake outburst flood was compounded by the presence of a string of dams in the Teesta river basin in the Himalayan state.

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"We call for the establishment of a Northeast India Truth and Reconciliation Commission to enable us to share the many challenges, tell our stories, acknowledge the mistakes and work toward collective healing and forgiveness," the statement says.

Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds 27/12/2020 A view of Svalbard from Earth orbit. Photo: Google Earth. “In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is from the Lepcha tribe in North Sikkim, and she is among the people on the ground fighting the Teesta dam project in her state. In the virtual parliament she expl...