Nagaland: Incidents and Statements involving
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) : 2003

The National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) has been providing training and shelter to various terrorist outfits of Northeast at its bases in Myanmar, despite a cease-fire with the Union government, media reports said on January 7. Thousands of cadres of the proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), All Tripura Tigers Force (ATTF), People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Kanglei Yawol Kunna Lup (KYKL) and People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) are presently training at NSCN-K camps. NSCN-K leader and self-styled revenue minister (Kilonser) of the government of oeople’s republic of Nagaland (GPRN) Zeeuolie Angami reportedly said providing training and shelter did not violate cease-fire ground rulesand added they were applicable only within Indian territory. He also reportedly said, ‘If the Union government takes the NSCN-K into confidence and involves it in the ongoing peace process, then the outfit might help in bringing other terrorist outfits of Northeast to the negotiation table’. He also reiterated that ‘nothing would come out of the negotiations involving only the NSCN-Isack-Muivah (NSCN-IM) that will suffice in finding a lasting solution to the Naga problem’. Read less...

A media report on July 21 has indicated that the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) discussed the issue of Nagalim (Greater Nagaland) with the Meitei terrorist groups, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF) during a recent undated meeting. Read less...

Media reports have indicated that the NSCN-IM has sought the help of Manipur-based People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in order to intensify attacks on the NSCN-K. Read less...