New Delhi, June 25 : Days after the Khaplang faction of the NSCN split along the international border with Myanmar, the Indian faction suffered another jolt today with its finance kilonser, Kughalu Mulatonu, joining the group’s Myanmar-based chairman, S.S. Khaplang.
Mulatonu left the Kehoi camp of the group’s Indian faction, located near Dimapur, with at least two other leaders, sources said. A Sema Naga from Nagaland, he will fill up the missing link which Khaplang needed with some Indian Naga tribes.
The leader of the Indian faction of NSCN (K), ato kilonser Kitovi Zhimomi, said he was fed up of bloodshed. “This is politics,” he said, responding to Mulatonu’s decision. “I don’t want bloodshed, Khaplang wants it,” he told The Telegraph from Dimapur.
Recalling his September 18 meeting with Thuingaleng Muivah, he said the NSCN (I-M) general secretary also wanted reconciliation. “People want reconciliation under the aegis of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation,” he said.
While Muivah’s decision is not known, it is clear that Mulatonu will pose a fresh challenge not only to his relative, Kitovi, but also to security forces. The calculus of a split outfit on the nationalistic lines is again distorted.
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