Union Home Minister Amit Shah has introduced that India would fence the border alongside Myanmar in a bid to limit free motion into India. The announcement comes amid a excessive variety of Myanmar troopers fleeing into India to flee ethnic clashes. 

“India’s border with Myanmar to be protected like border with Bangladesh,” Amit Shah mentioned at passing out parade of Assam Police commandos.

Nearly 600 Myanmar Army troopers have crossed into India within the final three months. They took refuge in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district after their camps have been captured by the Arakan Army (AA) militants – an ethnic armed group within the western Myanmar state of Rakhine – authorities sources mentioned.

Installing a fence alongside the border, India will scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) between the 2 nations. People residing on border areas will quickly require a visa to enter the opposite nation.  

The FMR was introduced within the Nineteen Seventies as individuals residing alongside the India-Myanmar border have familial and ethnic ties.

Earlier as we speak, the Mizoram authorities reached out to the Centre urging them to rapidly be sure that the troopers from the neighbouring nations are despatched again.

As preventing rages between insurgent forces in Myanmar and the junta-regime, lots of of Myanmar Army personnel are fleeing to India.

Myanmar’s generals are dealing with their greatest check since they seized energy in a 2021 coup after three ethnic minority forces launched a coordinated offensive in late October, capturing some cities and navy posts and forcing troopers to flee.