Centre extends ceasefire agreements with 3 Nagaland insurgent groups for 1 more year

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 20

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday that it has extended the ceasefire agreements, which were signed with three Nagaland insurgent groups, for one more year.

In an official statement, the MHA said, the agreements are with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-NK (NSCN-NK), National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Reformation (NSCN-R) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland K-Khango (NSCN K-Khango).

“It was decided to extend the ceasefire agreements for a further period of one year with effect from April 28, 2022 to April 27, 2023 with NSCN-NK and NSCN-R and from April 18, 2022 to April 17, 2023 with NSCN K-Khango,” it read.

As these insurgent outfits are breakaway factions of dominant groups NSCN-IM and NSCN-K, the Centre had on September 8, 2021 signed a ceasefire agreement with another Nagaland faction led by dreaded militant Niki Sumi.

The government had signed a framework agreement with the major Nagaland group NSCN-IM on August 3, 2015 in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The framework agreement came after over 80 rounds of negotiations spanning 18 years, with the first breakthrough made in 1997 when the ceasefire agreement was sealed after decades of insurgency in Nagaland which started soon after India's Independence in 1947.

However, with the NSCN-IM insisting on demands to have a separate Nagaland flag and constitution, further talks with the outfit appear to have hit a deadlock, as the Centre has so far rejected them.

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