ABSTRACT
Charismatic but authoritarian Phizo, who did not allow dissent in the NNC, 15 was believed to have links with the Chinese and Pakistani intelligence agencies. It was under his direction that the armed wing of the NNC exploited the hilly terrain and the forest area, both suited for guerilla warfare. He established bases in the Arakan Hills in Burma and in the Chittagong Hills in East Pakistan. Not only some neighbouring peoples, but also the British had sympathies for the N agas who had fought on their side during the Second World War. Repeating the strategy in Malaya to cut off the rebels from the civilian popUlation and thereby breaking their supply and intelligence system, it was planned to group the villages and keep them under the protection of strong security forces. A Naga People's Convention (NPC) of all the tribes (22 August 1957) was called again at Kohima, and on the basis of their unanimous decision, a Sixteen-Point Agreement (1960) between the NPC and the Union Government, the Naga Hills District, along with Tuensang, was separated from Assam (1 December 1957). Now, there were two Naga demands before the Indian Government, one by the NNC for complete independence, and the other asking for statehood within the Union. President Radhakrishnan inaugurated (1963) the separate State of Nagaland. Phizo eventually slipped into East Pakistan, then to Britain where he died (1990).
