Morung Express News
Kohima | April 20
In what can be termed as a near jeopardy to the decade old ceasefire, the Assam Rifles and NSCN-IM cadres remained locked in a stand off position at Molvom village under Medziphema for two days, however, it was eased on Thursday after the latter reportedly vacated the village in the morning.
Assam Rifle source said that the stand off occurred after the factional clash Sirhima on April 16, where NSCN-IM cadres and Assam Rifles jawans came face to face and the NCSN-IM cadres refused to move out of the village despite of numerous warning and request by the AR. The tension mounted so much that many villagers fled from their house for safety. However, the AR jawan maintained utter restraint in order to avoid any the situation, it said.
NSCN-IM cadres vacated the village and the tension eased after IGAR (N) Maj. Gen. KS Sethi visited the 42 AR camp at Medziphema and interacted with the village elders, council members of the villages in and around Ghaspani, and made a clarion called to the civil populations to extend support for peace at all cost.
AR release also said that many representatives of the villages’ turnout to meet the IGAR and put forward their views, which is a clear indication of the peoples’ desire for peace, it added.
Sources also further said that had it not been for the intervention and prompt action of the IGAR and 42 AR at Medziphema, and continuous media report on the situation, there could have been more confrontations between the two NSCNs factions and several lives would have been lost. Meanwhile, the release said that IGAR has urged elders of the society to ask ‘misguided youth’ to come back to main stream, so that the future of Nagaland is peaceful, happy and prosperous.
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