The Dimapur Ao Youth Organization (DAYO) has strongly condemned the September 7 incident at Naga United Village, where “some armed miscreants harassed, intimidated and robbed at the residence of a mother who at that time was with her infant and a 3-year-old child in the absence of her husband.”
Calling the act “a direct threat to the very social fabric of our Naga society” and “an attack on the dignity, freedom and safety of all women in our society,” DAYO said harassment and intimidation in any form is “a direct violation of human rights and is to be denounced vehemently by every right-thinking citizen.”
The organization further drew attention to what it described as an increasing number of “criminal intimidations and harassment by extortionists claiming to be from one or the other factions brandishing firearms in public areas and private residences.”
Referring to reports that the perpetrators vandalized CCTV equipment and took away the DVR, DAYO stated that “the very act… amounts to destroying of evidence.”
The youth body also raised concerns over the enforcement of the ceasefire rules, asking “why the ceasefire ground rules are not implemented strictly and that some of the glaring loopholes [are] not plugged.”
Extending “total solidarity with the victim and her family,” DAYO urged law-enforcing agencies to take “strict and stringent action against those responsible.”
