Mizoram leaders say no to border fence, want Free Movement Regime with Myanmar to stay — Here's why

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entire India-Myanmar border would be fenced. On February 8, Shah said that the Centre decided to scrap the India-Myanmar Free Movement Regime to maintain the country's internal security and demographic structure of the northeastern states. ALSO READ: What comes under India's Free Movement Regime with Myanmar and why was it scrapped? Top points Before this, in January, Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma maintained that he was opposed to the Free Movement Regime and fencing of the border.

Lalduhoma said last month that his government and different organisations in the state opposed the Centre's move as Mizos share ethnic ties with the people of the Chin community in Myanmar. According to reports, over 31,000 people from Myanmar, mostly from the Chin state, have taken refuge in Mizoram following the military coup in the neighbouring country in February 2021. "Mizos living in different parts of the world dream of reunification", and fencing the present border will amount to approval of the boundary "imposed" by the British, the Mizoram Chief Minister was quoted by PTI as saying.

Meanwhile, Mizoram Home Minister K Sapdanga, who moved the resolution against the Centre's decision on Wednesday, explained that the British demarcated the India-Myanmar border and divided the Zo ethnic people's land into two countries. "The Zo ethnic people can't accept the India-Myanmar border, which has been imposed on them by the British. They have been dreaming of reunification under one administrative unit someday," the home minister said.