Dimapur, February 13 (MExN): The Tangshang Naga Student's Association (TNSA) has strongly condemned the proposed scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR) and the fencing of the entire 1643 kilometers along what it terms as the "artificial Indo-Myanmar Border” by the Government of India.
In a press release received here, the TNSA stated that India and Myanmar had "illegally" erected border pillars in the heart of Naga soil, forcefully causing indigenous Naga families to live in two separate countries for decades.
"Furthermore, to fence in the middle of Naga soil is totally unjust and unacceptable… The bloodline of Naga as a family cannot be separated by any fence/wall or by any governments," stated the release issued by TNSA President Muwang Manpasa and Assistant General Secretary Komyung Pasung.
Accordingly, the Association asserted that the Nagas "have to defend ourselves from the offender at any cost." "No amount of development projects and policies can brainwash every single Naga that the Naga people are two, not one. And that Nagas have to live separately by the border," it added.
The TNSA, headquartered at Namyung in the Naga Self-Administered Zone of Myanmar, also pointed out that since time immemorial, indigenous Naga people living in their homeland had rights to “self-determination and management in any affairs.”
Therefore, it depends on the local populace where to go, how far to go, and where to reside, it said. "No external occupation forces have to suggest and make laws and orders over them. Moreover, freedom of movement and freedom to live is a very basic human right," it added.
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