DIMAPUR, JANUARY 18 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today alleged that Manipur commandos were responsible for the killing of a student and injury to three others on January 12 at Khumji (Lukhambi) village. A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) denied that it was involved in the incident, and rather alleged that “the commandos came in camouflage uniform speaking indistinct accent of Nagamese and indiscriminately fired upon the ill-fated innocent travellers to make believe as it was done by the NSCN cadres.” It informed that the stretch of the length of National Highway from Imphal to Jiribam was already sanitized and strictly guarded by both the state and Indian armed forces where penetration of other forces is impossible. “To whitewash their come after the shooting, operation was carried out by the commandos themselves thereby projecting others of the incident,” it added. The NSCN (IM) alleged that a “similar incident happened on January 8, 2017 at Tengnoupal area where a Kuki village chief and a church leader were kidnapped at the behest of Ibobi Singh by Manipur valley based militant identifying themselves as Meitei underground. But when dead bodies were brought nearby a Naga village, they spoke in Nagamese whereby simply blame the NSCN in various social media to create enmity and misunderstanding among the hill people.” The NSCN (IM) condemned the Manipur state government led by Chief Minister Ibobi Singh for allegedly “giving free hand to his henchmen commandos to commit heinous crime which has no place in a society.” “Playing games at the cost of innocent Naga civilian life like slaughtering animals is an unpardonable crime,” it stated and cautioned that the NSCN “shall no longer tolerate but will defend our people and lard with all available resources at our disposal.”