Thuingaleng Muivah heads the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), or NSCN(IM)
Guwahati/New Delhi:
The northeast’s largest rebel group NCSN(IM) has threatened to renew “violent armed resistance” 27 years after it signed a ceasefire with India over allegations that the federal government “betrayed” a landmark settlement signed in 2015.
The NSCN(IM) in a press release proposed the intervention of a third-party to resolve India’s alleged “betrayal” of the 2015 Framework Agreement, failing which it might “resume the violent armed resistance in opposition to India for defending Nagalim’s distinctive historical past and her sovereign existence.”
The rebel group headquartered in Nagaland didn’t specify what it meant by “third-party”.
Thuingaleng Muivah, the 90-year-old chief of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), or NSCN(IM), in a press release alleged India has not saved its phrase on recognising the “Nagalim nationwide flag” and the “Nagalim structure” as per the Framework Agreement signed in August 2015.
The 2015 Framework Agreement was billed as a serious breakthrough, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Mr Muivah and almost two dozen Indian officers and NSCN(IM) members sharing a stage for the digital camera after signing the settlement.
The content material of the settlement has not been formally launched to the general public.

The first signal of pressure within the post-2015 talks course of got here when the NSCN(IM) alleged India refused to recognise the ‘Nagalim sovereign nationwide flag’ and the ‘Nagalim sovereign nationwide structure’, which to at the present time stay unsolved.
“It is pertinent to grasp that Nagalim and the NSCN have given India the best alternative to resolve the a long time previous Indo-Naga political battle on the premise of the letter and spirit of the formally signed Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015,” Mr Muivah, the General Secretary of the NSCN(IM), mentioned in a five-page assertion.
Mr Muivah then alleged that India, nonetheless, “intentionally betrayed the letter and spirit of the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015 by refusing to recognise and acknowledge the Nagalim sovereign nationwide flag and, Nagalim sovereign nationwide structure.”
He mentioned Nagalim and the NSCN “won’t wait ceaselessly for the GoI [government of India] to respect and honour the letter and spirit of the Framework Agreement…”
“In order to conclude and realise an honourable political settlement, we rule out peaceable means in opposition to the ignominious betrayal of the letter and spirit of the Framework Agreement by the GoI. However, within the first place we suggest a third-party intervention to resolve the betrayal of the letter and spirit of the Framework Agreement… but when such a political initiative is rejected by the GoI, the NSCN shall resume the violent armed resistance in opposition to India for defending the Nagalim distinctive historical past and her sovereign existence,” Mr Muivah mentioned.
The central authorities has not responded to Mr Muivah’s assertion but.
The NSCN(IM) signed a ceasefire with India in October 1997. Since then, over 600 rounds of political negotiations have taken place between the 2 sides. Two main agreements have been signed through the years – first throughout former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s time, and the second in 2015, a yr into PM Modi’s first time period.
The different high chief of the NSCN(IM) was Isak Chishi Swu, who died in June 2016 at age 87 of multi-organ failure. Swu together with Mr Muivah shaped the armed group in 1980, opposing the Shillong Accord signed by the then Naga National Council (NNC) with the central authorities for bringing peace in Nagaland.
Some navy analysts have speculated of an ‘attrition’ technique to deal with the NSCN(IM). As senior leaders die of age, the youthful replacements could also be much less inflexible, or the group could break into additional smaller splinters amenable to lasting peace beneath India’s Constitution.