English: Funeral Service of late Kevilevor Phizo, son of legendary Naga Freedom Fighter AZ Phizo, held at Mission Compound, Kohima on April 28 (Sunday), 2013. Kevilevor passed away quietly from his London residence on April 12, 2013 from massive heart attack. He was 74 years.

His dead body was brought back by flight to Nagaland on April 27, 2013. Family members thank Government of India, British Government and also Nagaland Government for enabling them to bring back his body to his motherland. Late Kevilevor, who was born on February 20, 1939 in Rangoon Burma, was the third child of AZ Phizo and Jwenle. With the end of the Second World War and the rapid political changes taking place in the whole of South Asia, Kevilevor’s father, AZ Phizo took over a prominent role in the struggle to retain Nagaland’s freedom as a sovereign nation. Phizo (his father) became wanted man and was most of the time absent as a father. As a result of these national activities on the part of Phizo, Kevilevor, as well as all his brothers and sisters along with their mother, had a very unsettled and tumultuous childhood. On July 19, 1948, Phizo was arrested from Calcutta (now Kolkata) and detained in the Presidency Jail Calcutta for five months. Some of the Phizo family members including Kevilevor were next arrested in January 1956 and detained in the Kohima and Nowgon Jails for nineteen months. The other members of the family who were able to evade arrest fled into the jungles and were on the run and in hiding for many months.

Late Kevilevor served as the Central Executive Council of the Naga National Council (NNC) till his death. He was also a Senior Business Consultant and an Associate in The London School of Business.