[1][2] Perietsü Tubu Kevichüsa was born on 30 March 1948[3] in Kohima to a prominent family with significant political influence in Nagaland throughout the last half of the 20th century.
[4] Kevichüsa began his career as a lawyer but left India in the 1980s to work with the separatist Federal Government of Nagaland under Angami Zapu Phizo.
[5] On 9 July 1983, Kevichüsa wrote a letter to Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, with an intention to remind them that the formation of NSCN was wrong.
[2] His letter is quoted as follow: “You simply just cannot expect the people to accept a manifesto drafted in a remote jungle hideout as a gospel truth!
[7] On his tombstone at the Kevichüsa's Family Burial Ground is engraved, the Bible verse Isaiah 49:4 from the New International Version: I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing at all.