Qualla: 2021 Nagaland Killings https://qualla.com/2021-nagaland-killings en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: 2021 Nagaland Killings https://qualla.com/2021-nagaland-killings 2021 Nagaland Killings: Introduction https://qualla.com/2021-nagaland-killings/ They were coal miners riding home in an open-bed pickup truck. Six men from Oting village in Nagaland's Mon District, returning from the mines at Tiru on the evening of December 4, 2021, sometime between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. A unit of the Indian Army's 21st Para Special Forces was waiting in ambush. The soldiers opened fire on the truck. Six of the men died. Two survived with serious injuries. By the time the violence ended, eight more civilians and one soldier were dead, and a state already scarred by decades of military operations was confronting its latest wound.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/h/g/8/2021-nagaland-killings-wp/whg8-2021-nagaland-killings-a-law-that-shields-the-gun.mp3 0:06 2 full 2021 Nagaland Killings: The Evening of December 4 https://qualla.com/2021-nagaland-killings/ The army claimed its soldiers had received credible intelligence about insurgent activity in the area and that they opened fire only when the pickup truck failed to stop on their instructions. The two survivors rejected this account. So did Nagaland Police after a preliminary inq...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/h/g/8/2021-nagaland-killings-wp/whg8-2021-nagaland-killings-grief-fury-and-a-festival-silenced.mp3 0:06 4 full 2021 Nagaland Killings: Justice Denied, Questions Enduring https://qualla.com/2021-nagaland-killings/ Home Minister Amit Shah expressed regret before Parliament, which was in session, and established a Special Investigation Team to complete its inquiry within a month. But he repeated the army's account in full. The gap between the central government's narrative and the testimony ...

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