DIMAPUR, MARCH 17 (MExN): The two factions of the NSCN reportedly resorted to blank firing when cadres belonging to the NSCN (K) approached the Food Corporation of India store near Don Bosco school area, Mon town where the NSCN (IM) was holding discussions with leaders of different NGOs this morning. Reports said about 60 to 70 NSCN (IM) cadres arrived in Mon town and summoned leaders of different NGOs for discussion, reports said. Apart from the blank firing no untoward incident took place, it was added.
Meanwhile it was informed that a monolith erection function would be held in the morning March 18 at Mon in remembrance of late Chahtai and late Panglem who according to different organizations were allegedly kidnapped and later killed by the NSCN (IM) last year on March 18. Apart from different NGOs and societies, the Naga Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) is also expected to address the function, sources said.
Meanwhile, the Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights has extended solidarity and remembrance to the two deceased students’ Panglem and Chahtai “whose lives were snatched away from our midst a year ago, as a fall out of the Naga struggle.” “In the nearly six decades of Naga struggle for freedom and dignity, many have fallen in the hands of our own resistance and memories of such sad episodes are strewn out throughout the Naga homeland. It is an apt occasion to remember all who have given their all for peace and an event such as this also awaken in all the collective need to come together to build enduring peace which will lead us towards healing the spirits of our people, for the sake of our future generation,” a release said.
NPMHR wished the organizers, the Konyak Students Union and other civil societies and organizations of the community strength in the search for ‘collective memory and justice.’
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