{"id":97142,"date":"2024-07-18T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/controversy-erupts-as-hmar-groups-seek-probe-into-assam-encounter-deaths\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:57:30","slug":"controversy-erupts-as-hmar-groups-seek-probe-into-assam-encounter-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/controversy-erupts-as-hmar-groups-seek-probe-into-assam-encounter-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy erupts as Hmar groups seek probe into Assam encounter deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guwahati: A day after the three alleged Hmar<\/a> militants died in Assam<\/a> following the incident of firing, Hmar groups seek probe into deaths.<\/p>\n

Three Hmar militants were killed, and several police personnel were injured in a fierce encounter<\/a> in Cachar district of Assam on Wednesday. The militants belonged to Manipur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated in X on Wednesday, \u201cIn an early morning operation<\/a>, @cacharpolice killed 3 Hmar militants from Assam and neighbouring Manipur. Police also seized 2 AK rifles, 1 other rifle and 1 pistol.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cachar Superintendent of police Numal Mahatta told media persons, \u201cWe have intelligence that armed militants are moving in the border area and accordingly a police team was sent and during a Nakka checking three people were apprehended. They had AK 56 Rifle, a pistol and single barrel gun and ammunition with them. They were interrogated and during interrogation they revealed that some of their colleagues with sophisticated weapons are taking shelter in the foothills of Bhuban hills.\u201d<\/p>\n

He immediately added that a special operation was planned. \u201cIn the wee hours of Wednesday police personnel marched in the hill terrain of the hills and when they reached there. From the road towards Manipur around six to seven militants heavily loaded with weapons fired on the police team. Vehicle of Additional SP (headquarter) was damaged, and three police personnel were injured. There was heavy exchange of fire\u201d.<\/p>\n

The exchange of bullets lasted for an hour, and three policemen were admitted to Silchar Medical College and Hospital<\/a> for treatment. The SP added, \u201cOperation is continuing, security is beefed up and police personnel are deployed in the entire area. The militants entered from a neighbouring state and were going to a neighbouring state. It is under investigation.\u201dThe Hmar Students\u2019 Association and the Hamar Inpui, the apex body of the Hmar tribe alleged that the three persons, identified as Lallungawi Hmar, Lalbeikkung Hmar and Joshua, were \u201carbitrarily detained, taken to an undisclosed location and then brutally shot dead under circumstances that defy all principles of justice and human rights\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Hmar Students\u2019 Association said that the persons who died were not militants but \u201cvillage volunteers who valiantly defended the Kuki-Zomi-Hmar villages against Meitei militants\u201d.\u201cThe Assam Police\u2019s claim of an encounter is riddled with inconsistencies and contradicted by compelling video evidence, which exposes the fabricated nature of their account,\u201d alleged the student body.<\/p>\n

The Hmar Students\u2019 Association called for an urgent and impartial investigation into the three deaths.
The Hmar Inpui has also demanded an independent and unbiased magisterial inquiry into the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a gross human rights violation and a reflection of the apathetic criminal justice system in Assam,\u201d the body said, describing the case as a \u201cwhimsical\u201d and \u201corchestrated extrajudicial\u201d killing.
\u201cThe act is an utter disregard to the judicial institution by persons expected to uphold the supremacy of law,\u201d said the Hmar Inpui. \u201cThis is purely state-sponsored terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbouring district of Jiribam in Manipur is restive and tense. On Sunday a Central Reserve Police Force<\/a> (CRPF) jawan was killed and three other security personnel got injured when suspected militants ambushed a joint patrol party with the state police in Manipur\u2019s Jiribam district.<\/p>\n

The three injured include a CRPF jawan and two Manipur police personnel.<\/p>\n

Jiribam witnessed a wave of violence after the killing of 59-year-old farmer Soibam Saratkumar<\/a> Singh on June 6.<\/p>\n

The Jiribam violence led to around 900 tribals belonging to the Kuki and Hmar communities taking shelter at the homes of relatives and friends in two villages in the Cachar district of southern Assam, while around 1,000 people, mostly belonging to the Meitei community, are now sheltered in seven relief camps in Jiribam.<\/p>\n

Manipur has witnessed repeated incidents of arms loot since May 3 last year. At least 220 people have been killed, 1,500 injured and 60,000 displaced since violence broke out between the Meitei and Kuki-Zomi communities on May 3 last year.<\/p>\n

The riots began after a \u2018Tribal Solidarity March\u2019 was organised in the hill districts to protest the Meitei community\u2019s demand for Scheduled Tribe status.
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