IMPHAL, April 19 (NNN): The NSCN-K, Southern Zone while strongly condemning the truck driver murder incident along the NH-37 in Manipur has stated that it will unearth the identities of the responsible persons or outfit involved in the killing.
S. Babu, a truck driver was killed along the NH-37 on the night of April 17. As a mark of protest, a 48 hours Manipur bandh is already underway called by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) against the killing of the driver.
Johnson who is in-charge of publicity of the NSCN-K, Southern Zone informed Newmai News Network that the outfit has started investigating into the incident.
“The incident attempts to create bad blood between the people of the hills and the valley of Manipur but their evil design will never succeed,” said the NSCN-K, Southern Zone leader. He also said that any such communal strategy has no place and “we will see that such attempts are thwarted with maturity.” Johnson then said killing a driver who is striving a livelihood for his family is inhumane and a matter of pity. “Revolutionaries should go much, much higher than killing a poor driver or extorting from the poor transporters,” added the NSCN-K leader.
The NSCN-K, Southern Zone has also appealed to the general public to remain calm and not to take law into their hands. “We assure you that those persons responsible for the killing of S Babu will be identified and action will be initiated against them accordingly,” Johnson assured.
The NSCN-K, Southern Zone also condoled the grief stricken family members of S Babu and said that it shares their pain.