Angami Zapu Phizo

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Angami Zapu Phizo (16 May 1904 – 30 April 1990) was a Naga nationalist militant leader who was the president of the Naga National Council (NNC) from 1949 until his death. He led campaigns for a separate Naga state in South Asia. Born in Khonoma, Assam Province, British India, he rose from relative obscurity within the early Naga political movement to become its most uncompromising and internationally recognised voice. Phizo declared Naga independence on 14 August 1947, one day before India gained its own independence from British colonial rule, and subsequently conducted a plebiscite in 1951 in which the overwhelming majority of participating Nagas stated their desire to remain a free and sovereign nation. When peaceful engagement with the Indian government broke down irrevocably in the mid-1950s, Phizo established an armed underground administration, the Federal Government of Nagaland, and later made a clandestine journey to the West to place the Naga case before the international community...

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