Zeliangrongs protest killing of NSCN-K cadres
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Noney, July 04 2013:
A public meeting held at Noney Bazar in Tamenglong district in connection with the recent killing of six NSCN (K) cadres by Assam Rifles has decided to call a 24-hour total bandh in the Zeliangrong tribe areas of the North Eastern states including Manipur beginning July 8 midnight.
Participated by hundreds of people from different walks of life of the district, the meeting also called for immediate justice to the families of the victims and an independent inquiry into the incident by instituting an impartial Special Investigation Team (SIT) to book the involved security personnel under the law of the land.
10 Assam Rifles had claimed that the six NSCN-K cadres were gunned down in an encounter in Shonglong village about 50 km from Noney bazaar on June 22.However, the public as well as the outfit asserted that they were killed in a fake encounter.
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The six NSCN-K militants killed in the reported gunbattle were Chujanglung Dangmei, Leikampao Thaimei, ST Moningam Anal, Majadi Panmei, Ngoubui Newmai and Laban Rongmei.
Today's meeting also urged the Government of India to expedite the Indo-Naga peace talks to resolve the vexed Naga political problem at the earliest.
Most of the speakers in the meeting today demanded that all the AR posts should be removed from the entire Naga milieu.
At the end of the meeting, the participants burned effigies of Col Ajay Sharma of 10 AR and Major Gagan in protest against the Shonglong incident.