Non-cooperation with SFs till demands fulfilled: ENSF

December 24, 2021 68 Views No Comment

DIMAPUR, DEC 24 (NPN): Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has reiterated that it would continue with its non-cooperation with Indian security forces till its demands were met and warned that the Centre would be held fully responsible for any untoward law and order situation that might arise in this connection.

In a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, federation president Chingmak Chang and assistant general secretary Kaibo Konyak listed their charter of demands, which included immediate booking of security forces involved in the gruesome killing of 14 innocent civilians and injuring several others at Oting village in Mon district on December 4 and 5.

They also demanded Rs 1 crore compensation to each of the next of the kin of deceased and Rs 50 lakh each to those injured, besides immediate fulfilling of the commitment of compensation made by chief minister Neiphiu Rio during the funeral service at Mon on December 6.

Terming Union home minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament that “they were signalled to stop but tried to flee” and that the security forces had fired in self-defence as one-sided and in direct contradiction to the report from ground zero and incorrect, they demanded that Shah should retract his claims at the earliest.

Further, they demanded that the Centre should withdraw the draconian Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), 1958 from all the North-eastern States.

Drawing the Prime Minister’s attention to the killings in Mon district and seeking his immediate intervention, ENSF leaders claimed that on the fateful evening of December 4, some daily wage earners from Oting village in Mon district were returning home from coal mine in a pick-up truck after a weeklong labour without really knowing what the next moment had in store for them.

For, unexpectedly and to their utter surprise, the security forces fired at the vehicle in which they were travelling without any signal and killed 13 innocent coal miners and subsequently killed one protester at Mon town the next day, they added.

Chingmak and Kaibo said the targeting and killing of the innocent labourers were pre-planned and the security forces massacred them under the garb of AFSPA.

Therefore, in the light of the above, they said Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) adopted a public resolution at Longleng on December 14 resolving not to cooperate with the India security forces. They insisted that their demands should be met at the earliest.

Source: http://www.nagalandpost.com/non-cooperation-with-sfs-till-demands-fulfilled-ensf/247314.html