Nagaland Indigenous People’s Forum (NIPF) has announced its strong continued support to the Konyak Union (KU) and the people residing along the artificial and imaginary boundary of Indo-Myanmar, while strongly opposed the central government’s decision in fencing the border and scrapping the Free Movement regime (FMR).
NIPF president Dr T Lima Jamir and general secretary Kikheto Sumi wondered how the government could implement such draconian measures when the entire people of the Northeast were against these.
They claimed that the border demarcation between India and Myanmar had origin in arbitrary colonial decision beginning with the treaty of Yandabo in 1826 and, after some decades, it was finished with the Yangon Agreement on March 10, 1967 without the consent or knowledge of the Naga community, which endangered the indigenous people living in peace and harmony since time immemorial in the border line till today.
They questioned the central government how it could fence the border and scrap the FMR without even consulting the people of Nagaland in particular and the people of Northeast in general. They pointed out that the government could not dictate and should go according to the consent of the people, as India was a democratic country. Further, they declared that they stood with the February 3 public rally held at Longwa village, which was organised by the KU.