Prime chief of Naga insurgent team ‘impeached’, worries mount above long term of peace talks with Centre
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Guwahati/Dimapur: The chief of a Naga insurgent team was Sunday “impeached”, or billed with “incompetency” and alleged fiscal misconduct in just the organisation.The general secretary of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Neopao Konyak/Kitovi (NSCN/NK) — also identified as GPRN/NSCN — N. Kitovi Zhimomi, was sidelined in excess of interior variations and violation of occasion regulations, resources in the NSCN camp verified to ThePrint.
The 66-calendar year-previous leader also headed the Naga National Political Teams (NNPG) — an umbrella system of 7 Naga insurgent groups that are also get together to the peace talks with the central government — apart from the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM).


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While an official announcement is awaited, sources in the camp revealed the motion from Zhimomi was taken in an unexpected emergency “National Assembly” at the Tatar Hoho Hall, the council and central headquarters of the organisation in Khehoyi, about 35 km from Dimapur.
Right before getting the decision, leaders of the GPRN/NSCN had approached its president Neokpao Konyak to choose more than, but he refused, sources advised ThePrint.Further more, the coordinator of the doing the job committee of NNPG, Alezo Venuh, was unanimously elected as the group’s new basic secretary. Venuh confirmed the enhancement to ThePrint.The motives for Zhimomi’s impeachment have been attributed to internal variations that experienced been brewing in the organisation for practically a year. There was discontentment among the customers, and grievances towards Zhimomi for alleged misconduct and mismanagement of financial means. Members also pointed to his “dictatorial” manner of functioning.Past February, one particular of the group’s vital functionaries, Hokato Vusshe, had shifted to the Khango Konyak-led NSCN/GPRN(K) faction, creating a dent in the group.
With Zhimomi obtaining sidelined in his possess organisation, there is also speculation about who will guide the NNPG. Questions have also been raised about the long run of the ongoing talks with the central govt.Security analysts mentioned the advancement has damage NNPG’s edge in the conversations with the Centre. It has also solid a shadow on the unity among the distinct groups in the umbrella physique.Talking to ThePrint, former chairman of the Ceasefire Checking Group (CFMG), Nagaland, Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan, mentioned there was an urgent need to have by the central authorities to finish the peace system.“The problem could be witnessed as an urgent attractiveness by the youthful cadres to hasten and entire the peace process. Each time an insurgent organisation splits, it ordinarily assumes a much more virulent and radical form as in the circumstance of the Maoists in Nepal,” he stated.
It has been approximately a few decades given that talks among NSCN-IM and the government formally commenced in 1997, but the process remains stuck in excess of the outfit’s need for a individual Naga nationwide flag and Structure in recognition of Naga heritage of about 70 a long time.Even as the Centre intends to deliver several Naga teams with each other and indication 1 principal agreement, the basic dissimilarities involving the NSCN-IM and the NNPG continue being a hurdle in the direction of obtaining a “permanent solution”.Comprising seven Naga insurgent outfits, the NNPG has reiterated its determination to the “Agreed Position” signed between its working committee and the Centre on 17 November, 2017.Besides other teams, the NNPG include the breakaway factions of the Khaplang-led NSCN (NSCN-K), the NSCN/NK that signed a ceasefire settlement with the Centre in April 2012, the NSCN-Reformation (NSCN-R) led by Seeking Naga, and a splinter team of the NSCN (Khango) led by Isaac Khango.
For practically two a long time, Kitovi Zhimomi has led the NSCN-Unification (NSCN-U), now NSCN/NK, as its standard secretary because its formation in 2007. It was established by users from two teams, the NSCN-IM and the NSCN-K, as a peace arrangement among the factions.(Edited by Tikli Basu)
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