Morung Express News
Dimapur | September 9
An NSCN (I-M) chaplain, his wife and three others were killed after gunmen abducted them from near Piphema while they were on their way from Imphal to Dimapur last evening. Their bullet-ridden bodies were recovered this morning from near Khonoma and brought to South Police Station, Kohima. “They were shot at very close range,” a top police official said.
The chaplain of the NSCN (I-M) Church located at their General Headquarters, ‘Major’ P K Stone, was reportedly traveling with his wife, a mother of three, and the three others identified by police as his personal bodyguards in a Bolero when a Maruti Gypsy carrying armed men intercepted them.
Denouncing the act in strongest terms, the NSCN (I-M) Angami Region said the deceased were “mowed down” between Khonoma and Jotsoma at around 6:30 pm by the “turncoats.”
“There is no crime too base for these partners of the aggressor; there is no pretext too vile to assume,” the organization’s ‘Caretaker’ for the Angami Region, KK Angami, said in a release.
“Let all Naga people judge and speak out who are for peace, and who are for innocent blood at this moment when these oppressed Naga need settlement and an end to the long pent up conflict, the most. This is yet another most unpalatable expression of the GOI’s scheme to go round peace programs and settlement.”
Expressing shock over the recurrence of “such cold-blooded proceedings in the region when our people fervently yearn for understanding and calmness, while waiting for final settlement,” the release said, “Our broken hearts at this distress moment, go to those near and dear ones of the martyrs, to the children of Major Chaplain Stone and the mother who had followed her husband till the last. May the Almighty grant the necessary strength and courage and be the everlasting, compassionate Father to their children in particular, near and loved ones of all the martyrs, eternal soul mate to the faithful wife.”
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