DIMAPUR — NSCN (IM) has once again expressed objection to the government of India’s move to abrogate the Free Movement Regime (FMR) and fence the Indo-Myanmar border.
In a press statement issued on Saturday, the Naga group termed it a policy of the central government to “further strengthen its illegal occupation”. The statement comes in the backdrop of a recent informal meeting between the group and the centre’s representative for Indo-Naga talks, AK Mishra.
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“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. 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 an 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 statement read.
It maintained that the “Indian state oppressive strategy” is never an answer to resolve the Indo-Naga political conflict.
“Despite the Framework Agreement of August 3, 2015, the GoI’s deliberate act of scrapping FMR and fencing the border has hurt the Nagas beyond words. The NSCN/GPRN condemns the GoI policy in its strongest terms.
“Nagas would do anything to stand by the God-given right as a nation. Thus, if anything untoward happens, GoI shall be held responsible,” it stated.
