Guwahati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that highly decomposed bodies of nine persons were recently found in a gorge, covered in polythene sheets, in Nagaland’s Dimapur district adjacent to Assam.
The Commission has observed that the press report, if true, raises a serious question of violation of human rights of the victims and issued notices to the Directors General of Police, Nagaland and Assam and to the Superintendent of Police, Dimapur, Nagaland calling for reports within four weeks.
Reportedly, the bodies were blindfolded with hands tied and shot from close range on the head. One of the bodies had been identified to be of a missing Karbi student leader from Bokajan, a town in the trouble torn Karbi Anglong district in Assam.
It may be mentioned that all the bodies were later identified to be of persons belonging to Karbi tribe community in Assam.
The killings has been suspected to be a retaliation to the attack on Rengma Naga community inhabited villages in Karbi Anglong hill district of Assam on December 27 last in which at least nine Rengma Naga villagers including women were killed.
Over 3600 people belonging to both Rengma Naga community and Karbi tribe took shelter in relief camps out of panic after the attack on Rengma Naga villages by Karbi militants. The relief camps were set up by Assam government.
Out of those panic-gripped and violence-displaced people, about 600 have already left relief camps to go back home.
