Kohima, February 8 (MExN): The Yimkhiung Tribal Council (YTC) has appealed to the Governor of Nagaland to intervene in the construction of the Indo-Myanmar border fencing and to reinstate the Free Movement Regime (FMR) across Yimkhiung territory.
The YTC in a letter appended by its President, Throngso Yimkhiung and General Secretary, Laji Luyangba stated that scrapping of Free Movement Regime (FMR) by the Government of India and implementing the Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing “is totally an inhuman act towards the Yimkhiung citizen irrespective of artificial boundaries.”
“Herein, it is our birth right to maintain the territorial integrity of Yimkhiung Naga,” YTC asserted while requesting the Governor to intervene by stopping the construction of Indo-Myanmar border Fencing and to restore FMR through the length and breadth of Yimkhiung territory and “let us live a peaceful life as we are now, despite of hurdles of existing imaginary boundary within our ancestral land.”
YTC appealed to the Governor to “do the needful for the people of Yimkhiung and provide justice by allowing our people to live freely in our land.”
The letter was also copied to the Chief Minister of Nagaland and ENPO President “for information and necessary action.”
