Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, May 09 2010:
Three Naga Hoho officials have been assaulted after they were being robbed off today.
The Naga Hoho condemns the heinous assault and looting of Chuba Ozukum, general secretary, Naga Hoho, G.Vashum, joint secretary of Naga Hoho and Nepuni Piku, member of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) by two pistol wielding unidentified miscreants at around 3 pm on Sunday at a hotel in which they were staying in Kohima.
The gangsters barged into the room and ordered them to hand over their wallets, ATM cards, laptops and a printer.
When the civil society leaders resisted they started assaulting them with the butts of the pistols.
Thereafter they looted their wallets, mobile phones, laptops cash and important documents in the suit cases and escaped.
Meanwhile, the Naga Hoho said, "At this turning point in the collective lives of the Naga people, when the efforts for peace and understanding are showing welcomed signs of progress, it is greatly distressing that social misfits and criminals have wreaked unprovoked violence upon these leaders who have been in the forefront of the movement for peace in our land".
The Naga Hoho therefore appeals to all right thinking members of the society to condemn this dastardly act, which has insulted the Naga people at large and strongly urge the authorities to apprehend the culprits at the earliest and award them befitting punishment.