The sky over Kohima was bright and sunny on that early spring afternoon in March, 1995. I was just a school-going boy then, but I still remember the horror that unfolded, as if it were just yesterday. The serenity of this picture-postcard capital was suddenly broken by staccato bursts of gunfire from automatic rifles, loud explosions from grenades and mortars launched by Indian Army personnel at unarmed civilians. We came to know only later that a vehicle’s tyre had burst on the road and the trigger-happy Army personnel had ‘retaliated’ with full might at the unarmed civilians going about their daily routine. Many died that day. Among them was a young girl, one of my relations, who was killed by an Army grenade that landed in her house. Her sister, not too old herself, was maimed for life. And their grandmother was severely wounded. The events had left the entire town numb with shock—fully armed Army personnel targeting children in broad daylight. Mistaken identity, was it?