Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 20 (NNN):
A mobile team of the NSCN-K killed a cadre of the rival NSCN-IM today at Loktak Project area under Bishnupur police station.
Informing this to Newmai News Network a Spokesman of the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region said that one Lishi member of the NSCN-IM, Dinkachin Dangmei from Dalon village in Loktak project area was executed by the NSCN-K of Zeliangrong Region after arresting him.
The NSCN-K spokesman blamed the CAO, Zeliangrong Region, MK Winning of the NSCN-IM for the killing saying that the threats and warnings from the CAO to the NSCN-K had prompted it to kill the IM man today.
Chronicling the events which led to the killing, the spokesman said Dinkachin Dangmei was arrested at around 2 am today from a place in the Project area by a mobile team of the NSCN-K, Zeliangrong Region.
Following the arrest, various Zeliangrong social organisations including Zeliangrong Union, Zeliangrong womenfolk, LNC and social workers of the community approached the outfit (NSCN-K) appealing for the release of Dinkachin, said the spokesman.
He further said even the family members of the arrested cadre joined the appeal.
After a thorough discussion and consultation among leaders of NSCN-K's Zeliangrong Region in the backdrop of appeals from various section, the outfit was considering release of the captured cadre on humanitarian ground ground, he claimed.
The spokesman further contended that when the mobile team of the-NSCN-K was on the way to release the arrested IM cadre, threats and warnings were issued by MK Winning demanding immediate release and at the same time threatening the K group with dire consequences in case of failure to reciprocate positively.
The K spokesman maintained that Winning's warnings and threats had prompted it to kill the NSCN-IM member and accused Winning of trying to destroy the Zeliangrong society.
Asserting that a revolutionary organisation should accord respect to another, the manner in which Winning is handling things does not conform to the spirit, he charged.
Providing more inputs on the day's incident, the spokesman informed that its mobile team thoroughly interrogated the captive who revealed that he joined the NSCN-IM on March 21, 1999 and was a party in the September 15, 1999 killing of a lance corporal of the K group identified as Kaguigai Kamei of Longjang village under Nungba sub-division in Tamenglong district.
Dinkachin Dangmei also dfsclosed that he ordered the burial of an arrested K cadre who, however, managed to escape from the IM clutch, the spokesman added.