Morung Express News Dimapur | November 21 An FIR has been lodged demanding action against security personnel allegedly involve in “atrocity meted” out to Longkhojan villagers under Kanubari Block of Longding district in Arunachal Pradesh. The Kanubari EAC has also written to the the Longding deputy commissioner,” requesting him to look into the grievances of the villagers of Longkhojan,” The Arunachal Times reported on November 21. The EAC has submitted a report to the DC after having visited Longkhojan village on 19 November and having interacted with the villagers, it said. According to the report, the EAC in his submission quoted the villagers as saying that the body of an NSCN operative was brought to the village on the evening of 14 November by some cadres. They reportedly “forced the villagers to carry the dead body up to Ranglua village.” “As their lives were being threatened, they had to do the job, but refused to have any connection” with the incident, the EAC noted, adding a case in this regard was registered at the police station here on 15 November, according to The Arunachal Times Thereafter, the report said that a group of “army personnel from Dhangrikumar in Charaideo district of Assam conducted a search operation in Longkhojan in the evening, without being accompanied by civil police and without informing the village chief and gaon burah” on November 18. According to the EAC’s report cited, “the villagers alleged that the army personnel misbehaved with both men and women and used unparliamentary words during the search operation.” Twenty-three persons were reportedly “detained in the general ground the whole cold night without food, water and warm clothes,” the report said. Some of the villagers were beaten with “lathis and received injuries” and reportedly released the next morning “only after obtaining seal and sign from the village chief and gaon burah on a blank paper,” it added. Two individuals, currently undergoing medical treatment at the Kanubari CHC, have lodged an FIR at the police station “demanding action against the army jawans involved in the incident,” the report further stated. According to the FIR, “Twenty-three male villagers were forcefully dragged into the school playground and made to kneel down with folded hands and spent the whole night without food.” Meanwhile, the Wancho Council, the Wancho Students’ Union, the Longding District Students’ Union and the All Wancho Women Welfare Society have jointly condemned the alleged brutality of the army jawans. Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Arunachal Pradesh Ninong Ering wrote to the Prime Minister Narendar Modi on November 20 citing the incident as a “gross violation of human rights.” He requested the PM to intervene in the matter and take immediate necessary action on “those Army Personnel” for the atrocities meted against the villagers of Longkhojan” and instil normalcy in the area.
