Tirap: Caught between apathy and fear

The massacre of National People Party’s (NPP) MLA Tirong Aboh, his 20-year-old son and nine others by suspected insurgents at Khonsa in Tirap district on May 21 shook the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh and the entire country. However, the ambush left not just dead bodies but also unanswered questions.
The Tirap, Changlang and Longding districts, popularly known as ‘TCL’ region, has for decades been carrying with itself a tag of being a ‘disturbed area’ and has always remained under the strict watch of security forces.
Owing to incidents of murders, extortion, loots and other subversive activities that have been carried out on a regular basis by the underground militants, who, for some reason have been able to allegedly carry out the activities right under the nose of the state and Central government.
The situation, particularly in Khonsa and its surrounding villages, right now is such that, though the people know that staying under the dominance of such evil forces is wrong, they cannot do a thing about it, forget openly speak about it.
To get a clear picture of the May 21 killings and the overall situation in the area, a team of EastMojo recently visited Khonsa.

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