Kohima, Feb 7: The Eastern Naga People’s Organisation (ENPO) has made a significant announcement opposing the removal of the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Indo-Myanmar border.
In a statement, ENPO declared that the people of Eastern Nagaland would not allow any move to shatter their harmonious way of life or bring a stumbling block to the relationship they shared with their brothers and sisters.
ENPO claimed that it was a fact well understood by all policymakers and powers that be of India that the boundary demarcation between India and Myanmar was only an imaginary line that was unilaterally decided and drawn by then Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and U Nu in 1953 without the consent of the Nagas, which had resulted in an artificial separation of Naga people and their lands across the international border.
ENPO stated that the so-called international boundary between India and Myanmar, especially along the stretch of Eastern Nagaland arbitrarily, ran right in the middle of Naga homeland, the end result being that close relatives and families related by blood got automatically alienated from each other.
It was recalled that the people of Eastern Nagaland had vehemently opposed even the Centre’s decision to fence the border in 2011.
The ENPO suggested that India and Myanmar should opt to enhance the existing policy instead of scrapping the FMR that had been implemented to benefit the people of the region.
ENPO regretted that all these years, India and Myanmar did not give a thought to taking joint corrective steps to remove this man-made hurdle, causing suffering to the people of the region.
It strongly urged the central government to desist from focusing only on one aspect of any given situation and instead take a “balanced decision” keeping in mind the welfare of the people they govern, underscoring that good governance meant meeting the aspirations of the people rather than imposing diktats.
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