But we are also aware that though the messages of condolences and assurance for justice flow from politicians’ lips and twitter feeds, nothing much may happen in reality. The government of Nagaland has constituted a 5-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incidence. Union Home Minister, the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister of Nagaland have also joined the condemnation. On their part, all political organisations and leaders of different parliamentarian parties have condemned the incident. A further 22 were seriously injured, including seven children.Ĭoming back to the December 4 th incidence, in a statement expressing regret for the “unfortunate loss of lives”, the Army said its personnel had launched the security operation based on “credible intelligence of likely movement of insurgents”. As a result, seven civilians, including two girls aged three and eight, were killed. In 1995, in Kohima, soldiers shot indiscriminately after mistaking the sound of a tire burst for a bomb attack. Is this an isolated incident, or has such a “mistake” happened for the first time in Nagaland? Unfortunately, that is not the case. Besides these 13 people who have died, another 11 persons are injured, while two are reported missing. These coal miners from the Mon district were on their usual journey home from the coal mine to spend Sunday with their families before returning for duty on Monday. On 4 th December 2021, the Indian armed forces ambushed and killed 13 daily wage labourers who work in the coal mines of Tiru, bordering the state of Assam. Since then the Army had been carrying out a combing operation across the entire India-Myanmar border.Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email
In that operation, the Army had recovered an AK-56, a radio set, a hand grenade and live bullets. nbLYMLCqxQ - EasternCommand_IA 27, 2017Įarlier this month, special forces of the Indian Army had carried out an operation against the NSCN-K in Longding district in Arunachal Pradesh along the India-Myanmar border in which one NSCN-K cadre got killed and one soldier was injured. No casualties suffered by Indian Security Forces,” Army’s Eastern Command said in a tweet. “Heavy casualties reportedly inflicted on NSCN(K) cadre. In 2015, the Indian Army had conducted operations along the India-Myanmar border wherein it had launched two separate attacks along the border in Nagaland and Manipur in a pre-emptive move to counter planned assaults on the Indian armed forces and damaged their camps. The strike was carried out by a team of 70 commandos of the Para Regiment against NSCN-K, sources told It is reiterated that own troops did not cross the international border,” the statement added. Own troops suffered no casualties during the firefight. “As per inputs, a large number of casualties were suffered by the insurgents. While the Indian Army did not suffer any casualties, the insurgents suffered a huge loss of men. The operation took place in Long khu near Mon district along India-Myanmar border, according to the IDGP Nagaland LL Doungel. The insurgents then broke contact and fled from the spot,” said a statement issued by the Eastern Command. Own troops reacted swiftly and brought down heavy retaliatory fire on the insurgents.
“In the early morning hours of 27 September, a column of Indian Army while operating India-Myanmar border was fired upon by unidentified insurgents. The Indian Army on Wednesday shot down several Naga insurgents belonging to the NSCN-Khaplang or NSCN(K) militant group along the India-Myanmar border in the wee hours of morning even as it refuted claims of carrying out a ‘surgical strike’ or the Indian troops crossing over the international border.
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