India, Feb. 26 -- The Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL), the apex civil body of the Tangkhul Nagas, has condemned recent incidents of violence in Litan and adjoining Naga-inhabited areas, alleging targeted attacks on Naga villagers and encroachment on ancestral land.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the TNL Working Committee said the unrest followed an alleged attempt to murder a Tangkhul villager on the evening of February 7 in Litan. It stated that Stalin A. Shimray, a school teacher, was assaulted around 9.10 p.m. without provocation and sustained grievous injuries.

The organisation further alleged that on February 8, armed Kuki militants entered Sikibung/Sharkaphung village and set fire to more than 23 houses belonging to Tangkhul Nagas, ...