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Free Movement Regime (FMR) and install a border fence along the Indo Myanmar border, thereby dividing the Zofate (Zo people) residing in India and Myanmar. The body added that this proposed action would necessitate passports and visas for their interactions and contacts. ZORO urged the Government of India to reconsider its decision to terminate the connections of Zo people living in the international border areas of India and Myanmar. “It is crucial to note that the Government of India is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007 (UNDRIP).

Meetei Council Moreh has urged the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to settle and rehabilitate all the people driven out of Moreh since 1991. On January 2, seven security personnels were injured in an attack by suspected militants at bordering Moreh in Tengnoupal district. Moreh is just 4 km to the west of Myanmar’s largest border town Tamu.

military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months. The Three Brotherhood Alliance took control of Laukkaing late Thursday after Myanmar military forces laid down their arms and were allowed to withdraw, both sides said on Saturday. Photos and videos on social media showed a vast amount of weapons that the alliance claimed to have captured.

online scam operations in another blow to the embattled junta. The military is facing its biggest threat since seizing power in a 2021 coup after three armed ethnic groups — known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance — launched a sweeping October offensive in northern Shan state. Since November people have been fleeing Laukkai town, located in a district bordering China that is run by a Myanmar military-aligned militia and notorious for gambling, prostitution and online scams run out of compounds staffed by thousands of people, many trafficked. The alliance — made up of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Arakan Army (AA) and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) — said the town was now under their control. «All members from the Myanmar Army's Military Operational Command in Laukkai were disarmed and Laukkai became a clean area where there are no more members of the Myanmar Army,» the alliance said in a statement. It added that scores of junta soldiers, including some officers, had been captured and disarmed. The junta has not commented. TNLA Brigadier-General Tar Bhone Kyaw confirmed Saturday that the MNDAA had taken Laukkai. «It is their land, they got it back now,» he told AFP.

Traders are looking to import maize from Myanmar after the government last month put curbs on use of sugarcane for ethanol production and said it would switch to maize to meet its fuel blending target. «The country will have to rely on imports if it wants to achieve its blending target, as there is not enough maize in the domestic market,» said a trader who is in talks with Myanmar for its import. If India starts using maize for ethanol production, the requirement will be extremely high and will push prices up in the domestic market.

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Lalduhoma met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to apprise them of the concerns of the Mizos and the issue of Myanmarese refugees, especially with the present proposal by India to fence the border with Myanmar. He also pushed for a Greater Mizoram as part of Akhand Bharat. During his first official visit after taking over as chief minister after winning the assembly polls on December last year, the Mizoram CM apprised the PM that the current border with Myanmar was forced upon the two ethnic groups without their prior consent.

injured in an attack by suspected militants on Tuesday at Moreh in Tengnoupal district, close to the Myanmar border. With Tuesday's incident, a total of 11 security personnel have been injured in different extremist attacks in Tengnoupal district since Saturday. Reacting to the escalating violence, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) and Committee on Tribal unity (CoTU) have declared 24-hour shutdown in all Kuki-Zo areas (from midnight of January 3 to Jan 4) to protest against the alleged atrocities of the Meitei state forces and to demand their removal from all Kuki-Zo districts. They stated: «The incursion of communal Meitei state forces into Moreh and the surrounding tribal areas during the ethnic conflict involving the two communities is clearly an attempt by the chief minister to drive out tribals from their homes using state machinery, and will never be tolerated by the Kuki-Zo people.» «We urge the central government to remove all Meitei state forces, especially commandos, from Moreh and the surrounding tribal-majority settlements,» they said.

ethnic clashes and illegal migration of Chin-Kuki nationals from Myanmar, the Centre is set to issue orders for smart fencing for an additional 300 kilometres out of the 1,643 km of India-Myanmar border, running along Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, said a senior government official. The fencing of the remaining length of the border is likely to be completed in the next four and half years, the official said. The development comes after the initial pilot project of 10 km was completed last year and work for another 80 km was awarded, taking the total smart fencing to 390 km.

Mizoram after their camps were captured were flown back home on a Myanmar military aircraft on Tuesday. Officials said that a Myanmar Air Force aircraft landed at the Lengpui airport here on Tuesday afternoon to take back the soldiers. «A Myanmar Air Force transport plane from Mandalay (Myanmar) landed at Lengpui airport and evacuated 151 Myanmar soldiers to Akyab in two sorties. Before the departure of the Myanmarese soldiers, the Indian authorities have completed all necessary formalities,» a senior official said. According to officials, the Myanmar soldiers on Friday fled to Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district with their arms and ammunition, and approached the Assam Rifles after their camps near the India-Myanmar border were overrun by the Arakan Army fighters. Some of the fleeing Myanmar soldiers were critically injured in the gun battle and basic medical treatment was provided to them by the Assam Rifles.

Under the FMR, every member of the hill tribes, who is either a citizen of India or a citizen of Myanmar and who is resident of any area within 16 km on either side of border can cross over on production of a border pass with one year validity and can stay up to two weeks per visit. «We are going to end the FMR along the Indo-Myanmar border soon. We are going to put fencing along the entire border.

security forces personnel are in a critical stage and are receiving treatment in Imphal. Manipur CM visited the injured soldiers in the hospital and said that the state government is “committed to tackling those bent on destabilizing Manipur, ensuring justice for the victims with decisive actions against the responsible parties." While speaking on the recent attack on security forces, N Biren Singh said, "Search and combing operations are widely going on.

fled to Mizoram on Friday after their camps were captured by armed pro-democracy ethnic groups, would soon be repatriated to Myanmar. An official in Aizawl said that necessary formalities, including biometric processes, are being done and the authorities concerned are in touch with the higher authorities to get clearance to repatriate the Myanmar Army personnel. «Once the ongoing formalities are completed and clearance from the higher authorities received, the Myanmarese soldiers would be handed over to their authority in Tamu through the Moreh border in Manipur,» the official, who did not want to be identified said. According to officials, the Myanmar soldiers on Friday fled to Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district with their arms and ammunition, and approached the Assam Rifles after their camps near the India-Myanmar border were overrun by the Arakan Army fighters. Some of the fleeing Myanmar soldiers were critically injured in the gun battle and basic medical treatment provided to them by the Assam Rifles. The soldiers are now in the custody of Assam Rifles at Parva in Lawngtlai. Fierce gun battles between the Myanmar Army and the armed fighters resumed last week in areas close to the Indian border leading to the fresh influx of soldiers into Indian territory. In November, a total of 104 Myanmar soldiers, including officers, fled to Mizoram in different phases after their camps near the border were overrun by pro-democracy armed groups. Since November 13, Myanmar soldiers fled to the Indian territory in different phases after their camps in Chin state were captured by the Chin National Defence Force, the armed wing of the Chin National Organisation.

Manipur Police commandos on Saturday and Sunday injuring five personnel seriously. Manipur Chief Minister N.

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Mizoram's after their camps in the neighbouring country were overrun by an armed ethnic group. Around 151 Tatmadaw (Myanmar army) personnel entered on late Friday in Mizoram-Myanmar border Tuisentlang village in southernmost Mizoram's Lawngtlai district. They fled their camps in Chin state of Myanmar adjoining Mizoram after the Arakan Army (AA) militants overran and captured the military camp.

Assam government will sign a peace accord with the pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), aiming to end decades-old insurgency in the northeastern state, officials said. Union home minister Amit Shah, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and more than a dozen top leaders of the pro-talks faction of ULFA, headed by Arabinda Rajkhowa, will be present during the signing of the peace agreement in the national capital. The accord will take care of a host of long-standing political, economic and social issues concerning Assam, besides providing cultural safeguards and land rights to the indigenous people, the officials said. The hardline faction of ULFA, led by Paresh Baruah, will not be part of the agreement as he has been consistently rejecting the olive branch offered by the government Two top leaders of the Rajkhowa group — Anup Chetia and Sashdhar Choudhary — have been in the national capital since last week and gave the final touches to the peace agreement along with government interlocutors, officials said. Those who have been talking to the ULFA faction from the government side include Intelligence Bureau director Tapan Deka and the government's advisor on the northeast affairs, AK Mishra. The Rajkhowa-led ULFA faction had begun unconditional talks with the central government in 2011, despite strong opposition from the hardline faction led by Paresh Baruah, who is believed to be residing at a place along the China-Myanmar border. The ULFA was formed in 1979 with the demand for a «sovereign Assam».

foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 2.38 crore and one lakh Methamphetamine tablets valued at Rs 1.28 crore in separate raids in Mizoram. Two drug peddlers Litan Nama and Jakir Hussain who hailed from Tripura, were arrested and their vehicle used for transportation of the contraband was also seized. Assam Rifles and the Customs Preventive Force seized the foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 2.38 crore, contained in 109 cases, suspected to have been illegally imported from neighbouring Myanmar, was recovered in east Mizoram's Champhai district. The Excise and Narcotics department officials seized one lakh Methamphetamine tablets at Khatla locality in Aizawl and arrested Litan and Jakir. Mizoram's 510 km unfenced borders with Myanmar.

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external affairs ministry announced that, as part of its development assistance programme, India has extended 308 lines of credit aggregating to $32.02 billion to partner countries over the years. Of this, about $17.06 billion has been extended to Asia, $12.15 billion to Africa and $2.81 billion to others, it said. Around 600 projects have been taken up and executed in several sectors, including infrastructure, power, connectivity, agriculture, education and health, the minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. He said grant assistance projects are concentrated primarily in India’s neighbourhood in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. “India’s developmental projects are based on the needs and aspirations of the partner countries. The main instruments of support include lines of credit, grants-in-aid as well as capacity building programmes.