Simply too happy and too willing to respond to the reactions by the authorities have created the ‘scene of crisis’. This approach has sprouted from the lack of genuineness. They will discuss reactions as an event or as a source of discussion but not willing to venture further to ask why or to look for the cause of situation. We would like to raise this set of frustration to know why they refused to understand us. We are not willing to finish this sorry story by solely heaping blame on the hard shelled mindset and one-way traffic approach of the authorities. Another irritation is the low opinion of the authorities on anything pertaining to the Naga people.To be specific, there is a general line of thinking that Naga insurgent groups are a spent force. Both security agencies and administration think that the Naga insurgents have got used to peace now and that lethargy has swallowed them. One of the loudest of such comments came from Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat, who commands the Indian Army’s 3 Corps. Sometime in the month of June, Mr. Rawat had commented that ‘Naga insurgents are losing steam’ because ‘they are used’ to peace. 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 abrogation of the Ceasefire agreement 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.
