Dimapur, October 7 (MExN): Kikruma village, while expressing deep anguish at the killing of four of its members in Kohima recently, has demanded from the NSCN-K to produce evidence on what guilt the demised were killed for.
“We the people of Kikruma village vehemently condemn the October 3 incident where four of our members were brutally murdered in broad daylight” stated a note from the village council.
The note from the Kikruma Village Council took cognizance that the NSCN-K was reported to have claimed responsibility to the killing of innocent civilians like Chakhesang Students’ Union leader Vechikho Puro, NPF youth wing president Kuzhongoyo Puro and also a former NSCN-IM leacy member Kuvetso Kezo (resigned three years ago) and the severe injury to Beduvo Vero, a vice president of NPF youth wing, Kikruma. The village expressed in the strongest term its condemnation on the ‘inhumane act’ meted out to its members. This act speaks volumes of the insecurity and uncertainty to the lives of every Naga, the village council stated.
“When innocent lives are murdered mercilessly, then where is the place for every innocent Nagas including those of the kiths and kin of the killers? Today, every right-thinking citizen should think, react and uproot these kinds of menaces in the Naga society, the village called out.
The village demanded from the NSCN-K that if the victims were held deserving to be killed, proof and evidences should be produced on what grounds the victims were held guilty.
