CFMG wants NSCN-IM to handover 7 accused in Karbi killings

Alleging that seven persons allegedly involved in last month's murder of nine Karbi people in Pachaspura were hiding at the NSCN-IM headquarters, the CFMG today asked the organisation to hand them over to the police, a senior official said.
"I have conveyed to the NSCN-IM to handover the seven accused to the police so that law can take its course of action," CFMG chairman Lt Gen (Retd) N K Singh said alleging that the seven accused were reportedly hiding in the outfit's headquarters at Camp Hebron, Dimapur.
Talking to reporters after a meeting with the NSCN-IM led by its convenor K Chawang here today, Singh said that the involvement of the NSCN-IM has come to light after the arrest of three alleged accused persons.

Singh said that though NSCN-IM was not bound to follow the CFMG's request to handover the accused, Chawang assured of a discussion with its top leaders on the issue.
The chairman said that NSCN-IM's request for another designated camp within the Zunheboto district was, however, turned down.
NSCN-IM designated camp at Mukalimi was overrun by people on December 30 last, to protest an alleged rape and molestation attempt of two female passengers in a Zunheboto-bound vehicle by four NSCN-IM cadres.
Bodies of nine persons, who were blindfolded with hands tied and shot from close range, were found at a gorge at Pachaspura near Chumukedima last month. The corpses were stacked atop each other and were covered with a polythene sheet on which some boulders were placed.

The bodies were identified to be those of ethnic Karbi people from neighbouring Karbi Anglong district of Assam.