Dimapur, March 12 (MExN): Satakha town is reeling from the after-effects of intense factional clashes between the two warring NSCNs in the recent weeks. A note from the town’s local authorities highlighted various grievances being faced by the harried people of the sub-division.
A note appended by Chisho Swu (Peace Monitoring Cell), President of Sumi Totimi Hoho Satakha, Vitoly Hoky, and GB Vitoho Jimo stated how the factional clashes have left the town’s people unsettled and disturbed. “The school-going children’s careers are hampered for about one month and the schools are closed down due to the factional clashes where innocent publics and school-going children were injured” it stated. Secondly, this being the peak season of sowing for cultivators, farmers are facing immense hardships. If the situation continues, the difficulties the farmers are facing would be harder, it implied.
More to this, even the Satakha Town Baptist Church youth golden jubilee celebrations and related church programmes have been hampered. The local authorities also lamented that against the sanctity of the church, the underground cadres camped in the church.
Further, the official residence of the SDO (C) Satakha was occupied by underground cadres which, the note reminded, is a gross violation of ceasefire ground rules. “According to the ceasefire ground rules, the undergrounds are not allowed to roam around with arms and ammunitions in the towns. But Satakha town has become daily phenomenon for underground cadres to roam with full uniform and arms and ammunitions,” the note lamented. In view of the highlighted problems, the public of Satakha appeals to all underground factions to leave Satakha and return to their respective designated camps in the best interest of the people.
The note also expressed gratitude to DC Zunheboto and 111 Bn BSF for “risking their own prestige and intervening in the situation.”
