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firing by cadres of NSCN-IM. In a
factional clash between the cadres of
NSCN (IM) and Federal Government of
Nagaland (FGN) in Lasumi village under
the Pfutsero subdivision of the Phek
district in October 2004, several houses in
the village were destroyed. 5
On 16 December 2004, unidentified
gunmen shot dead Naga Youth Movement
(NYM) president Besulhu Tetaco and
injured another member in Kohima. 6
On 18 March 2004, hundreds of nontribals,
mainly labourers and traders, were
reportedly deported from Kohima by the
district administration for not possessing
mandatory Inner Line Permits or valid
documents. Hundreds of alleged illegal
migrants were reportedly herded into a
playground. Many of these people, their
hands tied, were put on trucks and sent to
Dimapur later. 7 While immigration and
violations of the ILP pose serious
problems in the Northeast, the State
government often fails to take appropriate
actions and abdicates its responsibility to
non-state groups. On 3 August 2004, the
Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) asked all
the “non-local” shopkeepers to shut down
their business establishments in Kohima
and keep off streets following alleged rape
of a four-year-old tribal girl by alleged
Bangladeshi labourers, who were engaged
in a Church construction, at Lerie colony
in Kohima on 29 July 2004. 8
On the morning of 22 November
2004, 45-year-old Keijangpao Daimei, an
assistant teacher of Khoupum primary
school was shot dead near the eastern gate
of Chingmeirong Kabui Khul under
Heingang police station. Later a statement
purportedly issued by KK Pamei, security
commander, FGN, Zeliangrong region,
claimed responsibility for the killing. The
statement identified the dead man as
Gaichampou Pamei, and accused him of
being ‘against the nation’. 9
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