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Barring rare exceptions like the Indian Express, the coverage of the Nagaland killings is case in point.

They said the security forces’ ‘heroic reports’ of the operation were false and fabricated.

The Northeast Students' Organisation (NESO), Nagaland's largest student organisation, protested across the northeastern region, calling for the repeal of AFSPA.

During the past few days following the Mon incident, the chorus for the repeal of AFSPA has been growing across the region

It further said that it was a botched ambush with a deliberate mission to kill and nothing to do with ‘credible’ intelligence of NSCN movement in the area.

The security forces’ killing spree began late afternoon Saturday, when an Indian Army Special Forces unit ambushed a pick-up truck that was conveying coal miners to their homes after a day of hard work.

The Nagaland cabinet decided during a meeting to write to the Union government and demand that the law should be repealed.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said in Parliament that the army had opened fire after the vehicle carrying coal miners was asked to stop but ‘tried to flee’.

The killing of Nagaland villagers in an Army ambush gone horrifically wrong has once again turned the spotlight back on the controversial Armed Forces (Special) Powers) Act of 1958.

The situation in Nagaland remained tense but calm on Tuesday as the state cabinet met to demand the Centre repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).