Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 19, 2010:
Dismissing police report of an Assam Rifles jawan sustaining injuries during an encounter on February 17 evening at Ngariyan Tera Warok along the Imphal-Yairipok road as concocted, the proscribed RPF said a PLA cadre who escaped from the clutches of police commandos has revealed everything.
An RPF statement issued by its Department of Publicity chief GM Changjou said on February 17 at about 1 pm, Lt Krishna of the PLA's Auxiliary Command while returning after a medical check-up was apprehended by a security team led by Imphal west district police commandos at Napet Pali.
even though the security team with Krishna as captive was heading towards Ngariyan Tera Warok with the intention of eliminating the individual, he somehow managed to flee away from the clutches of the security forces, the RPF statement alleged adding that Lt Krishna has arrived at a hideout safe and sound.
Elaborating on the incident of shoot-out, Changjou said as the police commandos opened indiscriminate firing to prevent Krishna from escaping, one personnel of the 28 Assam Rifles got injured.
citing Krishna's case as yet another testimony of police commandos and other Indian security forces rampantly indulging in extra-judicial killing and stage managed elimination of armed activists after arrest as well as innocent civilians, the Publicity chief accused Government forces of repeatedly transgressing Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
Affirming that ever since the RPF became a signatory of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, it had not only been desisting from causing harm to overpowered cadre/s of adversary forces but is also taking the responsibility of safety of the captive, Changjou demeaned India's claim as the world's largest democracy with the assertion that killing of apprehended UGs by its armed forces rather than relying on the court of law is against the Geneva Convention.
Not only is the Government of India violating the principle of the Convention but is also undermining its own legal validity and ethics of democracy, the statement opined while calling upon the people to remain even more vigilant to as to thwart and expose devilish intention of the security forces.