In further violent aftermath, the villagers of Oting violently protested against the armed forces – leading to the death of seven villagers and one army jawan. Due to ‘mistaken identity’, according to the armed forces as well as the home minister, the 21 Para Military forces shot at and killed six out of eight coal miners. The car was carrying eight coal miners in Nagaland’s Mon district who were coming back from work in the evening. The shooting, according to Shah’s statement, started only after the vehicle did not stop. But Shah also said that the vehicle was signalled to stop but tried to flee. He continued that the armed forces had information about insurgents from NSCN (Khaplang) travelling through the same route in Oting village, Mon district. On Tuesday, home minister Amit Shah stated in parliament that the Union government regretted the deaths. The Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh. Before the family stopped speaking to the media, they received a visit from the superintendent of police, Mon district. While recording a statement or interviewing two severely injured men might be barred for various reasons, the family members who were outspoken against the army forces until yesterday, are also being barred from giving media comments anymore. The superintendent of AMCH said while the hospital had no problem with the media being present, they had received orders from “Nagaland authorities” that the patients should not speak to journalists.Īlso read: Nagaland Killings: Demands to Repeal AFSPA Continue, Including in Parliament The patients should not be disturbed anymore,” said a person who was also present at the hospital and who wants to remain anonymous. Both men, in their statements to the media, had contradicted what Union home minister Amit Shah said in his statement two days ago. Sheiwang and Yeishang have not only survived the shooting but also witnessed the entire incident and seen what happened to the rest of the men who were killed.
No journalist is being allowed to speak to them and no one is allowed to meet the injured men, apart from the medical staff. Within a few hours of the only interview of Sheiwang and Yeishang being published, all media conversations with the two survivors and their family members present at the hospital have been barred. Yeishang and Sheiwang, the only two survivors of the brutal shooting, are currently admitted at the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Assam’s Dibrugarh district. Cannot speak,” said one of the relatives of the two survivors who were attacked by the 21 Para Military forces of the Indian Army in Nagaland on December 4. The NSCN has been negotiating for a settlement with the Indian government for more than 10 years now but their leadership appears to be upset over the slow pace of talks.Diburgarh (Assam): “Sorry, sister, we cannot help you.
Police say they suspect some top leaders of the KLA may have been among those killed.Įarlier, the Kuki Liberation Army had hijacked two passenger jeeps near the Maphou dam and officials say the Naga ambush may have been to avenge that as Ukhrul is a Naga-predominant district. They were ambushed by the rebels of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN).
The incident occurred late on Monday night when the Kukis were traveling towards Hundung village in Manipur's Ukhrul district, police said. Naga and the Kuki tribes fought a bitter fratricidal feud in the 1990s in which hundreds were killed. They said nearly 20 rebels of the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) were traveling in two jeeps when they were ambushed. The dead were fighters of the Kuki ethnic tribe who were killed in a gun battle with the Naga separatist insurgents, police said. At least 12 people have died in a clash between two rival rebel groups in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur.