The Konyak organizations have given the government 10 more days to meet the demands.
A “genocide park” to be set up in Nagaland’s Mon town to remind the Nagas The killing of 13 civilians by an elite armed force near the village of Oetting on 4 December, Konyak organizations said on January 14.
Accepting the proposal at a community-based summit on 14 January, Konyak organizations and leaders also extended their deadline for the government to act against armed forces personnel responsible for killing civilians.
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Konyaks are the dominant Naga community in the Mon district bordering Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Myanmar.
The community’s apex body, the Konyak Union, said scenarios of the massacre would be recreated in the park, including a pickup truck riddled with bullets that killed six coal miners.
Seven other villagers were killed in the retaliatory attack on the soldiers. The next day, the 14th person was shot at Mon, about 60 km from Oting, when an angry mob attacked an Assam Rifles camp.
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Union President Hoying Konyak said in a joint statement with Konyak President Ponglem Konyak, “We resolved to develop the Genocide Park, where the remains of December 4, 2021, the Oting incident will be brought to Mon and preserved ” Noklem Konyak, president of the Mother’s Association, and the Konyak Students’ Union.
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The organizations gave the government 10 more days from January 15 to take decisive action against the officers and soldiers involved in the failed operation that led to the killings.
The organizations on December 10 gave the government a month to prosecute all “guilty” Army and Assam Rifles personnel in a civil court and place the “justified report” in the public domain.
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On 14 January, he warned that Konyaks would abstain from all national events within their traditional jurisdiction, as supported by the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organization (ENPO), the apex organization in eastern Nagaland, if their demands were not met. .
“As per the ENPO resolution adopted on December 14, the declared ‘non-cooperation’ against the Indian Armed Forces shall remain in force till justice is served,” the Konyak organizations said.
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It further said that all designated Army camps located within Mon district and within civilian areas should be relocated, and demanded that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Nagaland government and the Army Court of Inquiry report be shared with the Konyak Sangh. Of.
The SIT had said on January 13 that forensic samples collected from the site of the December 4 murders were sent to specialized laboratories in Guwahati and Hyderabad for testing. Additional Director General of Police Sandeep Tamgadge, who is supervising the SIT probe, said, “Once we get the results, we can start preparing the final report.”
He said that the final report would be presented in the court. The 21-member SIT questioned the jawans, including 37 officers from the Army and the Assam Rifles, in which five are IPS officers, he said.
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