DIMAPUR, MAY 30 (MExN): The families displaced during the violence in Kiphire, which occurred in the month of February has reaffirmed on the resolution to not resettle in Kiphire town. According to a press release, the displaced held a meeting at Pungro town on May 27 where it reaffirmed to stand by the resolution adopted on February 12, 2016 till the perpetrators of the February 6 murder of a couple near Shamator are arrested and the properties damaged in the subsequent public upheaval at Kiphire town are rebuilt.
Stating that the displaced families have been maintaining peace and restraint till date, the release said that the case should be taken up strongly and without bias. Maintaining that the authorities have been “insincere and lukewarm” in its effort to act against the people behind the February 6 murder and the vandalism in Kiphire town, it cautioned that failure to initiate appropriate action by the authorities in concern, the displaced “will be forced to take its own course of action.”
