Key Points
On December 4, 2021, his son, Shomwang, was among six miners who were killed when the Indian Armys 21 Para Special Force opened fire at a pick-up truck in Nagalands Oting village, mistaking its occupants for insurgents of the banned National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang-Yung Aung) group...
The incident, which caused public outrage in Nagaland, led the National Human Rights Commission to take suo motu cognizance of the killings, and the state government to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to facilitate free and fair investigation in the case..
We are helpless.. Adds Chongmei Konyak, Oting resident and former Army Supply Corps soldier who was injured in the retaliatory violence: There was a lot of noise in the beginning, our leaders were rallying behind us, but now everything is quiet.. In the weeks following the incident, Nagaland was swept by public protests, especially in the states eastern districts, where Oting falls..
The influential Eastern Nagaland Peoples Organisation, which represents the Eastern Naga tribes, as well as the Konyak Union, the Konyak tribes representative body, had said they wont back down till justice was delivered and AFSPA was removed...
Asked if the state government had issued any directions to follow up with the Centre regarding the denial of prosecution sanction, Nagaland Director General of Police Rupin Sharma said that he had received none.. The Nagaland Congress hit out at the government for not pursuing the matter..
