The National Socialist Council of Nagaland [NSCN/GPRN-K (Ang-mai)] has issued a strong condemnation of the Government of India’s Ministry of Home Affairs, specifically denouncing its decision to construct a border fence along the India-Myanmar boundary and to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR).
In a statement, the group expressed its disagreement with the Indian government’s plans, emphasizing that the border demarcation between India and Myanmar stems from “arbitrary colonial decisions since the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826.” The NSCN-K (Ang-mai) pointed out that the Naga people have “always lived as one people, East and West, sharing land resources and kinship across this imposed border.”
The organization asserted that the government’s move to construct a border fence threatens the historical and cultural unity of the Naga people, as the boundary has been a division of shared heritage and family ties. The NSCN-K (Ang-mai) further warned the Indian government that failure to reverse the border fencing decision could lead to “serious consequences between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland NSCN/GPRN-K.”