
“It was deserted in the village, and my husband was scared. I asked him to leave for the relief camp, but his father didn’t agree. They were both killed right inside our house… attacked with sharp-edged weapons, and shot in the chest and head… What is the government doing? Is it waiting for all of us to die?”
Asha Yumnam, 29, was informed of her husband and father-in-law’s killing on Saturday morning. The duo was reportedly murdered by suspected Kuki ‘militants’, in the wee hours of the morning while they were asleep at their house in Kwakta Lamkhai village of Bishnupur district.