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Guwahati
The alleged objection by the Assam Rifles to a tract identified for a Martyrs Park successful Nagaland’s Mon has reopened aged wounds associated with the Oting killings successful December 2021.
The Konyak Union, the apex assemblage of the Konyak people that dominates Mon district, said that the Home Department approved a tract adjacent to an Assam Rifles campy for the operation of the memorial a fewer days aft the sidesplitting of 13 assemblage members by a peculiar Army portion successful an alleged botched encounter.
The national said the support was granted successful January 2022 for a memorial for the 13 victims of Oting, a colony adjacent Nagaland’s borderline with Assam, on with a fourteenth unfortunate who was killed aft Assam Rifles opened occurrence to repel protestors successful Mon municipality the pursuing day.
The office of Mon district, the municipality is much than 60 km from Oting.
“During the volatile situation, we sought a licence done the territory medication for the operation of the Martyrs Park astatine a tract adjacent to the Assam Rifles campy arsenic a people of respect for the guiltless lives mislaid and to punctual the information agencies to shun specified operations,” Konyak Union wide caput Wango Konyak said.
Union president K. Yamao Konyak stated that the 42 Assam Rifles stationed astatine Mon objected to the operation of the park, claiming that the allotted tract falls nether onshore leased to it.
“However, the territory medication has officially stated that the lease deed of the Assam Rifles onshore successful Mon municipality is not a registered 1 and does not clasp immoderate ineligible validity, ” helium said.
The national insisted that the assemblage needs the parkland arsenic a reminder of the December 2021 incidental for aboriginal generations.
The Konyak Union said that an entreaty to the territory authorization connected January 23 to resoluteness the substance did not output immoderate result. A reminder to the Commissioner of Nagaland connected February 10 has besides gone unheard, it said.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday (March 31, 2026), the organisation said it would spell up with the operation of the parkland astatine the chosen tract if the Neiphiu Rio-led Nagaland authorities fails to expedite the process soon.
“The national volition not beryllium held liable if immoderate untoward incidental occurs portion initiating the enactment (construction astatine the site),” it said.
An authoritative effect from the Assam Rifles is awaited.
