Dimapur, Jan 10: Nearly 100 people have set out on a two-day ‘March against AFSPA’ on foot from Supermarket in Dimapur to Kohima on Monday morning demanding immediate repeal of the AFSPA in Nagaland.
The march will cover a distance of 70 km and passed through the main areas of the city.
After a night halt on the way to Piphema on Monday, the marchers will reach Kohima on Tuesday and submit a memorandum to the Centre through Nagaland Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi requesting for immediate removal of the Act from the state.
“We have organised the two-day march demanding immediate repeal of AFSPA. We want to remind the centre that till the draconian AFSPA is not completely repealed, we will continue our fight against it,” said Kevitho Kera, an organizer.
The march was triggered by the killing of 13 innocent civilians at Oting in a botched operation by the 21 Para Security Forces on December 4 last year and another civilian in firing by the Assam Rifles the following day in the subsequent violence that followed in Mon town and extension of the AFSPA in the state on December 30 last year for another six months.
The organisers of the ‘March against AFSPA’ earlier requested the participants to listen and obey the authorities and not to indulge in any form of violence or destroy public property during the two-day march.
