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A right decision – Indian Army orders probe into deaths of women and children in Manipur
Indian Army is going to investigate the sensitive incidence when by standards – two women and a child was killed in a skirmish between Assam Rifles and the Manipur militants. The decision to start an investigation was good because it will finally expose what happened and keep Indian army clean of bad names and negative publicity especially from biased international human rights organizations.
According to media reports, the Indian Army has ordered a probe into the death of two women and a child who were apparently trapped in the crossfire between guerrillas and paramilitary troopers in Manipur on Thursday.
The women, aged 46 years and 20 years, and the child aged one and half years, were injured in a skirmish between guerrillas and troopers of the Assam Rifles, a force controlled by the army, at Saitu village of Senapati district, said an official statement.
The Assam Rifles had sent a 20-member patrol led by two officers to Saitu on Thursday after receiving intelligence reports regarding the presence of Kuki National Front rebels in the village.
"As the patrol approached the village it was fired on by six to seven militants from the village at approximately 11.45 a.m.," the statement said. When the troopers retaliated, the guerrillas ran into the village firing indiscriminately in all directions in an attempt to escape into nearby jungles.
The Assam Rifles patrol chased the rebels and on reaching Saitu found the women and the child "in an injured state, probably as a result of crossfire between the militants and Assam Rifles troops". The trio "succumbed to their injuries shortly thereafter".
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