Myanmar border,by Mizoram holds demonstration against fencing along scraping of FMR:NGO

The India-Myanmar border would impact the trade and economy between the two countries.NGOCC Chairman and Young Mizo Association President Lalhmachhuana said that the proposed fencing along.
Addressing the gathering Lalhmachhuana said that Mizo people are strongly opposed to both the fencing and the scrapping of FMR, which enables people on either side of the border to travel 16 km into each other’s territory without a passport and visa. The NGOCC Chairman observed that the proposed fencing alone would not curb the problems of smuggling of various drugs and arms besides infiltration.
Referring to Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh’s support to both fencing and scrapping the FMR, Lalhmachhuana said they have no problem if the Manipur government agrees to the fencing along its border with Myanmar. Lone Rajya Sabha member from Mizoram and senior Mizo National Front (MNF) leader K Vanlalvena and several MLAs from the ruling Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) and opposition parties, who treaded out of the in progress
savings session of the Assembly during the recess, took part in the assert presentation.

Vanlalvena, in a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, had said that the erstwhile British government after arbitrarily demarcating the international border with Mizoram forcibly settled Mizo people in three countries — India, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), and Burma (now Myanmar).
Earlier, the NGOCC had sent a memorandum to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging him to reconsider the decision to scrap the FMR and fence the India-Myanmar border.few leaders of Myanmar, who took shelter in Mizoram, also attended the protest event.
Chief Minister Lalduhoma, who earlier met Prime Minister, Union Home Minister and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and opposed both the fencing and the scrapping of FMR. Lalduhoma, who is also the President of the ruling ZPM, had earlier on a number of occasions stated that his government strongly opposed the proposed fencing of the border the Union Home Minister for the second time earlier this month,After meeting he had expressed optimism that the Centre may not fence the Mizoram portion of the India-Myanmar border and was keen to retain the FMR.
The Mizos of Mizoram share ethnic, traditional and cultural ties with the Zo-Chin community of Myanmar.Four northeastern states – Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh– share a 1,643-km-long border with Myanmar. (IANS)