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The Naga insurgency, climaxing in 1956, was an armed ethnic conflict led by the Naga National Council (NNC), which aimed for the secession of Naga territories from India. The more radical sectors of the NNC created the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN), which also included an underground Naga Army. [15]
The signing of Shillong Accord appears to have provided the final solution for the last twenty-years of conflict that inflicted suffering and neglect; accordingly, a large-scale of arms were surrendered, and the villagers enthusiastically participated in persuading the Naga underground rebels to come out and join the mainstream. The agreement ...
The accord —between the Government of India and "Underground Representatives" whose rank or status in the Naga army or the Federal Government of Nagaland were not even mentioned— stipulated that the armament of the Naga guerrillas should be deposited in agreed spots. However, those inspecting the implementation of the accord observed that ...
On August 14, 1947, the Naga National Council (NNC) led by Angami Zapu Phizo declared Nagaland an independent state. Phizo also formed an underground Naga Federal Government (NFG) and a Naga Army in 1952, which the Indian government sought to crush by sending in the Army to Nagaland and enacting the Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act, or AFSPA.
Nagaland was created in 1963 as the 16th state of the Indian Union, before which it was a district of Assam. Active Naga-Kuki insurgent groups mainly demand full independence. The Naga National Council led by Phizo was the first group to dissent in 1947 and in 1956 they went underground. [citation needed]
NSCN formed an underground Naga Federal Government having both civil and military wings, the Government of the People's Republic of Nagalim (GPRN), and the Naga Army. Later, a disagreement surfaced within the group's leaders over the issue of commencing dialogue with the Indian government.
On 8 August 1972, the Chief Minister Hokishe Sema was ambushed by suspected Naga members near Kohima. The Chief Minister escaped without any bodily harm but his daughter was seriously injured. On 31 August 1972, the Government banned the three Naga bodies, 1) The Naga National Council, 2) the Naga Federal Government, and 3) the Federal Army.
On August 3, 1968, General Kaito Sukhai was assassinated in Kohima by a member of the underground Naga Army. He succumbed to his injuries the following day, August 4, 1968, at the age of 35. [ 12 ] His death was a significant loss to the Naga independence movement.