Video shows brutal caning of villagers in Meghalaya
14 Sept 2014 5:04 AM IST
Outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills region have resorted to a brutal caning at suspected police informers in several villages as a mechanism to deter others from providing information to the police, an official said on Friday.
The matter came to light after police recovered a mobile phone from the possession of one of the cadres of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants who was gunned down by police in an encounter earlier this week, they said.
‘We found out that the GNLA has adopted this strategy (brutally caning suspected informers) to threaten villagers with an intention to deter any of them getting close with the police,’ Inspector General of Police G H P Raju said.
The video clip has exposed the brutality of the militants as it showed several villagers suspected to be police informers being thrashed brutally by a group of GNLA cadres who seemed to have gone to the village to create havoc there, he said.
Police suspected that the militants had resorted to caning at innocent villagers to ensure that they have a safe place to hide from the police, engaged in the combing operations.
Counter Insurgency Operation ‘Hill Storm’ launched in the first week of July is yielding results with at least 11 to 12 camps of the GNLA busted, Raju said.
The matter came to light after police recovered a mobile phone from the possession of one of the cadres of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants who was gunned down by police in an encounter earlier this week, they said.
‘We found out that the GNLA has adopted this strategy (brutally caning suspected informers) to threaten villagers with an intention to deter any of them getting close with the police,’ Inspector General of Police G H P Raju said.
The video clip has exposed the brutality of the militants as it showed several villagers suspected to be police informers being thrashed brutally by a group of GNLA cadres who seemed to have gone to the village to create havoc there, he said.
Police suspected that the militants had resorted to caning at innocent villagers to ensure that they have a safe place to hide from the police, engaged in the combing operations.
Counter Insurgency Operation ‘Hill Storm’ launched in the first week of July is yielding results with at least 11 to 12 camps of the GNLA busted, Raju said.
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