DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 21 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) has raised strong objection on the policy of Government of India (GoI) to abrogate the Free Movement Regime (FMR) and to fence the Indo-Myanmar border.
An MIP press release on Saturday said amongst others, the “strategy of Indian state has been motivated to further divide the Nagas by reinforcing the unrecognized imaginary international state boundaries imposed on Nagalim and significantly undermining Naga national struggle.”
It maintained that the current Indian state policy of scrapping FMR and border fencing is a colonial ‘divide and rule’ strategy to crush the Nagas under the pretext of combating insurgency, illegal immigrants and drug trafficking, thus defending that this safeguard ‘national security and integrity.
The NSCN (IM) said such wanton action is directly attacking the brotherhood existence of the Naga people that resides in the present states of India and Myanmar.
“Nagas do not accept the arbitrary division of Nagalim whatsoever and such act of segregating Nagas who are existing as a family, people and nation in their own land is unacceptable and a flagrant violation of international law,” the NSCN (IM) press release read.
Also stating that the Indian state oppressive strategy is never an answer to resolve the more than seven decades old Indo-Naga political conflict, the NSCN (IM) lamented that despite the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, the GoI’s deliberate act of scrapping FMR and fencing border has hurt the Nagas beyond word. It said if anything untoward happens, GoI shall be held responsible.
