NSCN-K faction announces ceasefire, signals return to peace talks

Sumi said the group was “aware of the sincere and genuine efforts made by the GoI in the recent past” to find a lasting solution to the Naga issue “with the involvement of all the stakeholders”. He said it has decided to revive ceasefire with immediate effect “by revoking the earlier decision of unilateral abrogation” of the ceasefire in 2015. Back then, the outfit was led by its founder, SS Khaplang, who died in 2017.

“We expect GoI to respond positively by honouring our decision as a confidence building measure in the larger interests of peace in Nagaland and Naga people in general,” the statement said.

After its founder’s death, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang named Khango Konyak as the new head. In 2018, however, the outfit split when he was reportedly “impeached”. Khaplang’s nephew, Yung Aung, took over the group, which is based in Myanmar.

Meanwhile, the first breakaway faction of the NSCN-K, led by Konyak, joined peace talks in early 2019.

The NSCN (Isak-Muivah)—the largest and most influential Naga outfit—has, meanwhile, been engaged in peace talks with the Centre since 2015. These talks however, have not made much headway as the outfit has held on to its demands for a separate Naga flag and constitution, which the Centre is against.

The Naga National Political Groups—an umbrella body of several other insurgent groups of Nagaland (including Konyak’s faction) that are in talks with the Centre—as well as civil society groups have maintained that they are open to a solution that does not involve a separate flag and constitution.

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