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During the course of time, British survey parties started to enter the Naga Hills which cause intense unease amongst the Nagas, and clashes with the British continued. When Assam became a province under British Rule in the year 1874, the Angami Naga Territory around Kohima became British-administered territory under Captain John Butler. They felt agitated by the movement of large sepoys/ troops in their own area. As the Nagas were a people who loved to live freely without outside interference. In a preview of this in the year 1866, Naga Hills was made a separate district under the Assam district. Tsenthungo Odyuo) His delineation of when he was born and death is yet unknown as in those days Nagas were mainly confined to the practice of headhunting and the traditional way of living and reading and writing were unperceived consequently all the incidents, traditions, taboos, customs, and beliefs were passed down through oral tradition.ĭuring the late 19 th century the British were in an attempt to take control of the Naga inhabited area as such many expeditions were deployed in the Naga hills and adding to that the policy of noninterference was also introduced however it did not prove fruitful to the colonial kingdom. This evidence can be traced where a Human skull was seen engraved in his graveyard. Mhonyimo Ngullie was also a patriotic fighter and a good warrior in the village.

However looking into the history of Nagas, the individual who did a heroic act in the course of the fierce fight is seldom known in the history of India. The story of the death of Captain John Butler who was a political officer is wide known.

He was a stern individual utterly against the rule of the British and wanted his own native people to abstain from the control of the British. 45 caliber gun and two deformed slugs were found at the scene.Mhonyimo Ngullie hailed from Pangti village under Wokha district in the State of Nagaland. The intersection was blocked off while personnel from the Crime Scene Investigation checked for evidence in the area. Vehicles were temporarily diverted, said Cebu City Traffic Operations Management (CITOM) operations chief Joy Tumulak. Lanes of Osmena Boulevard from Sanciangko to Colon streets had to be closed. For the meantime, we will coordinate with City Hall for access to CCTVs in the area,” said Senior Inspector Elisandro Quijano. “Most of the witnesses didn’t want to testify. The gun attack caused major traffic congestion downtown for one and half hours but police said there were no witnesses who stepped up to describe what happened. Police are trying to get copies of CCTV footage owned by establishments in the area. The businessman was declared dead at Velez Hospital after sustaining fatal gunshot wounds in the chest, stomach and arms.

#AMBUSHED NAGA PROFESSIONAL#

Policemen conducted checkpoints but failed to arrest the suspects.ĭacua said the gunmen could be professional hired killers based on how they executed the murder: the gunmen waited until after the children disembarked from the van, and then made sure the target was killed.Ī bullet hole in the tinted windshield of the van and three smaller ones in the driver’s side showed the assailants were aiming for Villaceran’s head. The assailants, who wore helmets, fled to the Carbon area and disappeared.

He proceeded to Colon Street where the ambush took place a few meters away. Villaceran was driving the family van with plate number AAE 8439 and had just dropped off two of his grade school children at the University of Cebu on Osmeña Boulevard. Romeo Santander, chief of the City Intelligence Branch, confirmed that Villaceran was in the police watch list of suspects involved in illegal drug trade but declined to give details pending investigation of the ambush. SPO4 Dacua said they would investigate why the victim was carrying several guns. A bag in the passenger seat contained P327,000 cash and notebooks.

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