There is a general line of thinking that NSCN-K or any other Naga insurgent group is a spent force. Both security agencies and administration think that the Naga insurgents have got used to peace now and that theirs is no longer a great body that is capable of digesting fresh violence. One of the loudest of such comments came from Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat, who commands the Indian Army’s 3 Corps. Mr. Rawat said that Naga insurgents are ‘losing steam’ because they are used to peace. This very comment of the Army officer has not gone down well with the Naga society. This very comment let the cat out of the bag pertaining to the peace approach adopted by New Delhi. Mr. Rawat’s comment suggests that New Delhi’s effort to have peace is not merely for the sake of public security and peace or to reduce the suffering of the people but to weaken the Naga revolutionary movement, the approach which is a departure from genuineness. One should mark that a liar will always have different answers just for one question. So lack of genuineness is complicating situation.Now, we are witnessing an uptick in insurgent activity after the Ceasefire agreement abrogation between New Delhi and NSCN-K. This grim development has come even as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Narendra Modi continues to send out we-are-tough-on-terrorism message.
For the Narendra Modi government to deal NSCN-K is also to deal various non-Naga insurgent groups operating under the recently floated United Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (UNLFW). United Liberation Front of Assam - Independent (ULFA-I), National Democratic Front of Boroland - Songbijit (NDFB-S), Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) and NSCN-K are the principal signatories of the UNLFW. It is said that Meitei based UNLF, RPF and KYKL are also very much working under this banner with S S Khaplang as their chief. These outfits straddle the Myanmar frontier with S S Khaplang who is maintaining a very good rapport with the latter country has been providing them a safe refuge.
Given this situation, one important strategy of New Delhi is going to be to do anything that pleases Naypyidaw.
