In Arunachal, warlord eyes ‘friendly’ rival’s space

The NSCN (Khaplang-Yung Aung) is in sync with a unit of NSCN (Isak-Muivah), said to operate independently of the parent organisation headquartered in Nagaland

The Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland or NSCN (I-M) is arguably the most organised and disciplined of the extremist groups — active or disbanded — in the northeast. But a maverick top gun of the outfit, known to offer his services for political kills, has been operating independently in sync with the NSCN (Khaplang-Yung Aung) to gain ground in southern Arunachal Pradesh, officials said. Two years after the NSCN split into the Isak-Muivah and Khaplang groups in 1988, the latter ventured into the Changlang, Longding and Tirap districts of Arunachal Pradesh.