Naga Club (NC) has petitioned President Draupadi Murmu and UN secretary general António Guterres against the scrapping of Free Movement Regime (FMR) and proposed fencing of the Indo-Myanmar border by the Central government.
In a memorandum to the President and UN secretary general, signed by 20 members of the Club, NC termed the recent decision of the Centre to scrap FMR as “a crime against humanity in general and the Nagas in particular”. They reiterated that Naga Club, was an institution that uphold the rights of the indigenous Naga people and was compelled to seek their intervention to prevent the perpetuation of “another systematic orchestrated and organised repression by India against the Nagas.”
The signatories declared that the Nagas would oppose any restriction on their movement in their ancestral land and the erection of any physical barrier on “an arbitrary and imaginary line” devised to divide and separate them in their own dwelling places.
They also pointed out that the Indo Naga conflict was one of the longest conflicts that continued to date. The signatories alleged that the conflict persists because India refused to acknowledge the ground realities of its occupational aggression and its policies of oppression through the likes of the scrapping of FMR. They cautioned that such acts would only serve to push the wedge of mistrust deeper into the Indo-Naga political conflict that refused to cease.