Pasighat, Oct. 25 -- Anti-dam activist and advocate Ebo Mili and youth leader Otul Jerang surrendered at Pasighat Police Station on Saturday after violence broke out during a 12-hour shutdown opposing the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh.

Both called for peace and condemned the unrest.

The activists have been prominent figures in the campaign against the proposed 11,200-MW hydropower project. Their surrender came as tensions rose in Pasighat, where protesters allegedly set a police station on fire and damaged several properties.

Mili said the shutdown in Siang, East Siang and Upper Siang districts sought the release of activists detained during earlier anti-dam demonstrations. Protesters were also o...