Ninglun Hanghal
With the Indian government deciding to end the Free Movement Regime (FMR) and fence the Indo-Myanmar border, a sense of unease and disconcert has gripped the civil society organisations and border communities in Nagaland, Mizoram, and Manipur. In Manipur’s border village of Govajang in Tengnoupal district (near Moreh town), barbed wire fencing has come up.
Sonboi Lhungdim, a resident of Moreh and a popular YouTuber, who visited the border villages to see the fencing work, says, “Tracks along which we go and come, or they come and go, have been closed.” Momoun Singson, another resident of Moreh, says that “the border fence is going to tremendously affect our daily lives”.
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