‘Admit we got aggressive but they killed our brothers, who had done no wrong’

NEW DELHI: DEC. 7 – The sharp sound of a gunshot broke the relative calm of Monday afternoon in Oting village in Nagaland’s Mon district, home to just 180 households. The shots fired are a traditional mark of respect by villagers for 13 of their own.

On Saturday, there was a sound of gunfire, too — but that was different; continuous, and as one villager puts it, “ominous”.