Nagaland Transparency, Public Rights Advocacy and Direct Action Organisation (NTPRADAO) has stated its strong resentment of the Central Government’s decision to suspend Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Indo-Myanmar border. In a press release, the organisation has asserted that its 3,000 plus members are “prepared to go any length” to stop the “proposed international boundary fencing” from being executed.
“We Nagas are ancient indigenous peoples with high level of political realisation, cultural and social cohesiveness. With that sense of historical oneness since time immemorial Naga family needs continuous and up-to-date free movement within our Naga inhabited areas from both sides viz. India and Myanmar”, NTPRADAO stated.
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The organisation also said that as a signatory to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007 (UNDRIP), India’s standing in the world stage will be shattered if the FMR is removed. Therefore, NTPRADAO appealed the Centre to “rethink and re-strategise” its decision.
Further, NTPRADAO also urged all individuals and political parties in Naga inhabited areas not to the way of the “self serving”, “traitorous wolves in sheep clothing” Minister Temjen Imna Along and Advisor Imkong L Imchen, “who possesses an anti-Naga mindset, with an ulterior motive to gain political mileage by encouraging the BJP High Commands dictates blindly, at the expense of future Naga generations.”
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