The present National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) was formed on 31 January 1980. However, before it reaches its zenith - on 30 April 1988 the NSCN was split into two groups as NSCN (IM) and NSCN (K). The NSCN-IM comes under the leadership of Isak Chishi Swu and Th. Muivah and NSCN-K comes under the leadership of S.S. Khaplang.

After the NSCN split into two groups - both the groups were trying to beguile the Naga people. The racing to embrace more people and to be recognized by the people continues till today and every one is just a spectator. Everybody knows the common undesirable activities of the NSCN but it is uncommonly talks in the public meeting.

Is there any Naga who does not know what the NSCN is doing? Is there any Naga who talks in public about the detrimental common activities of the NSCN? Who dare to point out the negative aspects of the NSCN openly?

I believe that pointing out their negative aspects and giving suggestion never means that it is against them - instead a constructive criticism would enhance in their work and it should be appreciated. It is bitter to reveal the negative aspects and swallow them but we know that unless we heated the iron ore with more than 10000C - we cannot extract pure gold.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee the former Prime Minister of India is commonly known as the "Right Man in the Wrong Party in India". Likewise the NSCN leaders also seem to be the "Right Leaders with the Wrong People in their Organization".

The NSCN leaders may be the right leaders but due to the cadres (lower rank) working with them defame their leaders; they are creating copious of problems to the Naga civilians and unless such kind of problems with the Naga civilians are solved - the ceasefire with the government of India do not serve a good purpose.

The Naga civil society commenced to encounter lots of problem from the Indian Armies starting from 1950s and till today we face the similar problems from NSCN.

Today, the common gossip in privacy or uncommon talks in public are becoming the common public talks whenever any topic starts about the NSCN. The most common gossip about the NSCN is their fratricidal, discipline, extortion, voluntary retirement, division of leadership etc.

The fratricide, discipline and extortion were commonly gossip in privacy or public till 1990s but today people talk about giving voluntary retirement to the uneducated senior leaders and division or distribution of leadership to different tribe; not concentrating in one particular tribe in other to win the confident of the Nagas and to accomplish the work more efficiently.

Today Internet is another people site where people talk so much about the NSCN; almost everyday the NSCN news on fratricide is posted in the news. Therefore even the whole world knows the fratricidal game of the NSCN. There will be not a single person who would consent that the NSCN have a good discipline and free from extortion and fratricide.

But who dare to say that they don't have good discipline? When will the Naga civil leaders open up their mouth and go against all the detrimental activities of the NSCN? And when will the NSCN leaders manage their lower rank leaders and teach them a good discipline?

The Naga civilians need protection from the NSCN and fellow friends but instead, some are killed; some are brutally beaten up and some are harassed at gun point. Many of the NSCN lower rank leaders are always involved in many undesirable activities like drugs, boozing, dawdling with gals, acting over-smart, not respecting the civilian rights etc.

According to the top NSCN leaders - all their men should have a very stringent discipline and they should not engross in any undesirable activities. They are also supposed to control the civilians cherishing in all those undesirable activities. However if they themselves involve in all the undesirable activities - how can we the civilians respect and give cooperation to them? Unless the NSCN shows a good example to the civilian and respect the civilian rights - there is no point to be hypocrite and they cannot expect any respect and cooperation from the Naga civilians.

In early 1990s, I and another guy were randomly picked up by one of the Naga insurgent as a ransom since the village couldn't pay money up to their demand. We were kept under their custody in the outskirt of the village jungle for more than 3 hours. However after the village brought some money and conciliated them - they accepted the money and released us.

This is how some of the Naga insurgents do and it is not appreciated by the civilians. I don't think that the villagers would have given them happily. If the villagers do not contribute with their heart - it may not be possible to do anything good in their work.

One of the NSCN leaders says, "I know that my people in lower rank involve in some detrimental activities but how can I help them because the villagers had sent only such kind of people who are less important in the village; it is very difficult to discipline them"

But in another perception - that may be another big excuse from their side because they can discipline and control their people. Anyway, it is the high time that the NSCN should discipline their cadres and give voluntary retirement to the uneducated senior leaders and recruit only the educated and well discipline Nagas. If not it will remain as it is till the uneducated people die due to old age.

Do the NSCN encourage voluntary retirement of the uneducated leaders? Unless the NSCN recruit the educated and learned people - I don't think that the situation in Nagalim will improve. The learned people know their own capability but the uneducated people wish to do everything and that it is biggest problem to work together with the uneducated people. The uneducated people are the "Master of None" but they always try to compete to possess the leadership, which may be common in NSCN.

The Assam Rifles are commonly known as, "Friends of the Hills People" but due to their brutality and harassment to the Nagas civilians without any reasons - today they are commonly known amongst the people as, "Enemy of the Hills People".

In a similar way, if the NSCN also harass the civilians and want to overlook the civilians at gun point and snub the civilian personal rights - it is unworkable for the Naga civilians to love even their own blood brothers and sisters.

It is one of the Nagas characters that they are deeply averse to dictatorship imposition since the Nagas love to live an independent life since time immemorial. Even today - every Nagas village is an independent village and they love to live in that way. Nagas cannot be dominated and impose by any self-style rule. Nagas are peace loving people and they are more predispose with the peace loving people and no with the people who threaten and want to dominate.

In conclusion, some of the suggestions are given below:

1. Should give voluntary retirement to the uneducated senior leaders urgently
2. Should divide the leadership amongst the different tribe to work more smoothly and win more confident from the Naga civil society.
3. Should be trained well in etiquette and discipline
4. Should not take bribe
5. Should not involve in extortion
6. Should respect the civilian personal rights
7. Should not stay together with the civilian in the village or town
8. Should not involve in boozing and drugs business
9. Should not loiter here and there with gals
10. Should not give bad image to the Nagas through their detrimental activities
11. Should never take money with gun point
12. Should not involve in politics through muscle power, which is giving very bad reputation in recent years.
13. Should teach them the Naga political history to boost their interest to fight for the Nagas.