As we're close to almost a year since the abrogation of article 370 in J&K, re-upping my piece from my meeting last year with NSCN leader, Th. Muivah, who said the decision to scrap Kashmir's special status 'unacceptable' aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/n…
On Aug 5, it'll be five years since the leader signed a framework agreement with the Centre, in the midst of Narendra Modi. Since then, his brother in arms, Isak Chishi Swu passed away and he had been patiently waiting for the talks to proceed towards a peace accord.
But things changed after Kashmir status was scrapped and Indian interlocutor RN Ravi was sent as Governor of Nagaland. Muivah, who had mostly avoided speaking to the media himself, spoke to several outlets about a sense of betrayal from the Indian govt. That they had been led on.
Modi gave Ravi time till the end of November to reach a 'final solution'. Instead, what was achieved was that all the factions of the NSCN were formally brought into the agreement. GoI had otherwise been conducting parallel talks leading to mistrust between factions. 
*correction - end of October.
Far from any progress on negotiating the last pieces in the agreement, Ravi has complained of 'extortion' by 'armed gangs' - same folks he's been in 'peace talks' with. He even attempted to take over law and order under art. 371A and administration through DC postings.
Recapping the decades of armed struggle and peace talks, @p_semolina argues that the government 'needs to return to the language of negotiation, not antagonism' scroll.in/article/967827…
So what changed? Who benefitted out of this veneer of a strong Hindutva government open to respecting the unique history and status of a tribal 'armed' group leading the struggle to establish an independent Christian state based on socialist principles?
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