Article: Militants 'execute' drug addict for killing schoolboy

Imphal (Manipur), March 15 -- Shocking, but true. Militants in India's northeastern state of Manipur executed a drug addict in just about 24 hours after the youth allegedly killed a schoolboy for a pair of gold earrings to buy synthetic pills for a kick.

The separatist People's Liberation Army (PLA), the armed wing of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), shot dead 21-year-old Mayengbam Bungthoi in Imphal West district late Tuesday after making him confess to the crime before local journalists.

The sequence of events leading to the execution of the drug addict was as horrifying as the crime itself. On Monday, Bungthoi, a known drug addict in the area, took eight-year-old ...

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