NSCN(K)’s new chief, Yung Aung, is a Meitei-turned Naga nationalist.
THE MAN WHO NOW heads the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland was once a rising taekwondo star in Manipur.
Yung Aung was born Nongmeikapam Thoiba Singh in Ukhrul, a district bordering Nagaland, in 1973. He studied at the prestigious Macha Leima School in Imphal, which had students from Assam and Nagaland as well. He won several gold medals representing his school and district in taekwondo competitions, and according to his family, represented India in a tournament held in Thailand in the early 1990s.
Thoiba’s father, N. Phenajawa, was headmaster at a government school in Ukhrul, and his mother, Anuradha Devi, was a housewife. Phenajawa wanted Thoiba and his younger brother, Mantosh Seram, to excel in both sports and education.
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