A botched anti-insurgency operation resulted in the killing of 13 civilians in Nagaland's Oting in December 2021. The state police's SIT concluded that the victims were shot “with a clear intention to kill”.
In the evening of December 4, 2021, security forces had, in a case of “mistaken identity”, fired at a pickup truck carrying eight miners in Oting in Mon district.
A closer look at the order reveals the area in the North East under the contested law has not shrunk significantly. In Arunachal, it has actually gone up.