New Delhi, August 15: The Nagaland Police has withdrawn its bloomer-ridden website. A casual visit by this writer found that the website http://www.nagapol.com could not be accessed. The organisation, Net Visions (India) Pvt Ltd, which hosted the site for Nagaland Police was contacted only for a laconic one-liner admission of as much. The New Delhi-based organisation's director, Dipin Kapur, refused to elaborate and only assured that the site would be up "soon" once again. Kapur did not say how "soon" this would be. He also did not comment on why the site had been withdrawn in the first place.

If the Nagaland Police website was in any way meant to counter the well-documented, exhaustive site of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, it was doomed to fail. In the age of information and propaganda, the site came across as an anachronistic and self-delusive endeavour. This writer had first exposed the loopholes in the site in an article for the New Delhi-based fortnightly, North East Sun, in April. Nothing seemed to be right with it. Except for the home page itself, it was atrociously laid out, the articles did not seem to have been written in English, despite being sketchy in furnishing information.

The spellings were sure to drive even the sanest Nagas nuts. There were spellings like Makekchung and Zunbhote being touted as two of the 10 police districts in the state. Elsewhere, there was something called a Wekha district too. The site mentioned "The virulent activities of NFG/NFA (not explained what they were) came to a halt when ceasefire was declared in 1964 culminating in signing of Shillong accord in 1975." There was no mention of the ceasefire falling flat, of course.

There was mention of some "late Zashi Muirie" "unilaterally" abrogating the Shillong Accord of 1975 in April 1996. It also said that "the permanent president of the NNC is Ms Adine Phize who lives in London." The NSCN(K) general secretary was supposed to be someone called "Dali Mangru Ao". And "The title of underground govt." (of NSCN(IM) was "GPRM". It was supposed to have raised one battalion (?) called "Dimmsa National Security Force". The NSCN(IM) was said to have close links with "ULF of Manipur", apart from "Revolutionary Organisations of Mayanmar like Arakan Liberation Party, Arakan Communist Party, Arakan Tribal Party and Chin Liberation fund". The site also mentioned "Murah in Manipur" as being a transit point!

If that is not all. Till now Nagaland was supposed to have witnessed four ceasefires! The first, it said, was the Nine-Point Akbar Hydari (no agreement or pact!) of 1947; the 16-point agreement of 1960 which led to the formation of Nagaland state in 1963; the ceasefire agreement of 1964 and the 1975 Shillong Accord. Abbreviations like NNC, NFG, NFA, NSCN were not elaborated anywhere either. The section describing the districts strictly from the tourism point-of-view was couched in unnecessarily pompous (and not necessarily correct) language which, in any case, seemed to have been unabashed lifted from brochures and leaflets of the state tourism department. Needless to say, very little original material had gone into the site. (Subir Ghosh; Northeast Vigil' August 15, 1999)