DIMAPUR, APRIL 22 (MExN): In the backdrop of the recent incidents involving the Assam Rifles and the NSCN (IM), the latter has now informed through the MIP that “Ceasefire violation and human rights violation in the hands of the notorious Assam Rifles is happening not only in Nagaland but elsewhere also”. It was informed that on 20th April one Capt.Yaomi of NSCN was picked up by the personnel of the 19 AR from the jungle in Holom village in Tirap district and tortured to death and his lifeless body dumped in Khonsa District Hospital.
According to the MIP note, Yaomi was not feeling well and was on the way to move out from the village when the AR troops caught him from a jungle hut (Khola). “He was without any weapons in his body. There is nothing to doubt that the case was purely a custodial death”, the MIP note stated.
His body was brought to Dimapur with the help of the villagers of Holom and after conducting condolence service the body was sent off to his native village at Tanrui in Ukhrul. Members from NSCN and others from the civil societies paid rich tribute to him, the press note stated. Capt. Yaomi who was posthumously given the rank of Major died in a far off region of “Nagalim in Arunachal Pradesh in the hands of 19 AR and he remain committed to the cause he had avowed to defend till his last breath”, the MIP note stated.
The NSCN (IM) stated that Maj. Yaomi’s name will be recorded and given a place of honour in the Naga history for the service rendered for the Naga nation. “May his soul rest in peace and may God comfort his family members at such hour of grieve and sorrow”.
