The Yimkhiung Tribal Council (YTC) has urged Nagaland Governor to intervene in the Government of India’s decision to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) and fence the Indo-Myanmar border, calling it an “inhuman act” that disregards the rights of the Yimkhiung people irrespective of artificial boundaries.
In a representation to the Governor, YTC president Throngso Yimkhiung and general secretary Laji Luyanba asserted that it was their birthright to uphold the territorial integrity of the Yimkhiung Naga, and urged the Governor’s intervention to halt the border fencing while restoring the FMR across the entire Yimkhiung territory.
The council emphasized that the community must be allowed to continue their peaceful way of life, “despite hurdles of existing imaginary boundary within our ancestral land.” YTC urged Governor to do the needful for the Yimkhiung people and ensure justice by allowing them to live freely in their land.