Dimapur, May 31 (MExN): The killing of the Naga villager Tuesday by personnel of Assam Police in Anaki ‘C’ village, Mokokchung, was without provocation, eyewitnesses informed. The person, S Alemmongba was slapped without any reason, pushed to the ground and then shot in the back with an AK assault rifle.
Three women from Anaki ‘C’ village had gone to work in a paddy field adjoining a tea garden where Alemmongba was in-charge of the laborers. The eyewitnesses said personnel of the Assam Police, numbering about seventeen or eighteen, entered the garden and accosted the victim. Without any reason or provocation, he was slapped a couple of times, pushed to the ground from behind and shot twice in the back by the Assam policemen. After shooting the victim dead, the policemen fled the scene, chased by those women working in the fields.
It is confirmed by the district’s police that the victim was shot dead with a Kalashnikov. Two empty casings of bullets at the murder scene confirmed this, it was informed. The whole gory murder incident took place late afternoon around 2 pm. Anaki ‘C’ village borders Assam.
It was also informed that the victim was earlier taken into custody, along with four other persons by the Assam police in the month of February. They were kept in custody for a night and later released. The murder committed by the Assam Policemen is observed as an unprovoked, sadistic indulgence.
Harassment of Naga villagers by personnel of the Assam Police is not a new thing, eyewitness accounts made clear. They often march into the area without warning or warrant and harass the Naga villagers, the area’s people said.
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