Tingplik Express

DIMAPUR, May 9 (TEN): Following an appeal from the Diphupar ‘B’ Village Council, the district administration Friday set up a security base of the 9 IRB Company in the village to provide security to the people.
The IRB jawans would be temporarily sheltered at the Government Middle School, Diphupar.
All the educational institutions and business establishments within Diphupar ‘B’ jurisdiction remained closed Friday as a mark of protest against frequent factional clashes in the area.
Meanwhile, the Diphupar ‘B’ Village Council in a memorandum addressed to both the Kilo Kilonsers of the NSCN (IM) and NSCN Unification informed that the public of Diphupar ‘B’ have unanimously adopted a resolution not to extend co-operation to any faction whose armed cadres venture in public inhabited areas and create unwanted situation.
The memorandum signed by Diphupar ‘B’ Village Council chairman Kakiho Sumi, secretary Mhathung Lotha and head GB LP Therie warned that the wrath of the public would befall on any faction failing to heed to the appeal and resolution adopted.
Condemning Thursday’s clash in the village, the Village council appealed the warring factions to listen to the call of the villagers for peace.
The council also pointed out that the clash had posed grave threat to the lives of school going children and affected their academic routine
“For fear of gun battle the students had refused to go to school where as the parents too are unable to send the students to school for lack of security”, the memorandum stated.
In a separate representation to DC Dimapur, the Diphupar ‘B’ Village Council questioned the district administration as to why the security forces had failed to intervene when the “people were in the jaws of life and death.”
Stating that innocent public and students in particular were suffering miserably due to indiscriminate firing in the village, the council also requested the district administration to immediately set up a security base in the village to defuse the prevailing tension in the area.