The ongoing ethnic conflict between two communities in Manipur has refreshed the cold war between two Naga extremist groups based mainly in adjoining Nagaland.
The working committee of the Naga National Political Groups (NNPG) has practically told the rival Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland or NSCN (I-M) that its members do not belong to Nagaland by raking up the “blood relations” of the Tangkhul and the Meitei communities.
The Meitei people have been caught in an ethnic battle with the Kuki group of tribes since May 3. The Meiteis, Nagas, the Kuki-Zomis are the three major ethnic communities of Manipur.
