: Nagaland firing: Villagers say security personnel tried to pass off killed civilians as militants #IndiaNEWS Villagers in Nagaland’s Oting, which is the home of 12 of the 14 civilians killed in incidents

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Nagaland firing: Villagers say security personnel tried to pass off killed civilians as militants #IndiaNEWS
Villagers in Nagaland’s Oting, which is the home of 12 of the 14 civilians killed in incidents of firing by security forces over the weekend, on Wednesday called the “heroic reports�? about the operation false and fabricated.Oting Citizens’ Office, an organisation representing the people of Oting village, in a statement, accessed by NDTV, claimed that the security personnel attempted to present the killed civilians as militants by placing weapons near them and dressing them in camouflage outfits and boots.On Saturday evening, the security forces opened fire at a pick-up van carrying coal miners from the Tiru area to their village Oting in Nagaland’s Mon district, killing six on board. They mistook the group of workers for insurgents.After the ambush, residents set vehicles of the security forces on fire. As the soldiers fled, they shot dead more civilians, alleged Nyawang Konyak, the president of the Mon district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In the chaos, seven more civilians and one soldier died.The citizens’ office has also said that Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament backing the security forces on the civilian killings was unwarranted.On Monday, Shah had said that the security forces had laid an ambush in the area based on information received on the...Read more

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