Atrocities allegedly committed by Indian Army at Longkhojan condemned
DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 28 (MExN): The Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) has condemned the atrocities allegedly committed by the Indian Army personnel at Longkhojan village under Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Standing in solidarity with the Nagas of Arunachal Pradesh who are now faced with suppression and strangulation of their rights and articulations without any democratic space under extreme militarization, the NPMHR through a public statement said the Government of India can delay justice, but it will not be able to deny justice forever. For, “no matter how long the night, day will surely come”.
The NPMHR also expressed solidarity with human rights defender Agnes Kharshiing and her colleague Amita Sangma, who were brutally assaulted on November 8, at Tuber Sohshrieh in East Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya in their mission against illegal coal mining.
Urging the Government of Meghalaya to uphold justice and confer just penalty to the culprits where such delivery must serve as a deterrent to similar illegal mining activities sprouting all over North East India, including Nagaland. It lamented that the governments of the day are unable to raise even a “voice of concern” because of which activists such as Agnes Kharshiing and their likes face the brunt of mining mafias who collaborate with political powers that be.
Meanwhile, NPMHR has expressed gratitude to the National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) for facilitating delegates representing more than a hundred social, democratic and human rights organizations from all over the Indian sub-continent to visit Nagaland as part of their Yatra from marking the historic Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March from Dandi to Delhi in 1930, to protest against British Rule in India.
“This has come at a most appropriate time, when democratic institutions and human rights defenders of the world’s largest democracy have become easy and soft targets and victims of a fascist-like government in place,” the public statement read.
