Oting Killings News Today

Refusing sanction to prosecute accused army personnel turns the spotlight once again on the AFSPA.

While the six died on the spot, two survived. Seven more civilians and a security personnel died in retaliatory violence that followed.

A botched anti-insurgency operation resulted in the killing of 13 civilians in Nagaland's Oting in December 2021. The state police's SIT concluded that the victims were shot “with a clear intention to kill”.

In the evening of December 4, 2021, security forces had, in a case of “mistaken identity”, fired at a pickup truck carrying eight miners in Oting in Mon district.

A closer look at the order reveals the area in the North East under the contested law has not shrunk significantly. In Arunachal, it has actually gone up.