MHA’s stand unacceptable, says FOCS
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By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Dec 29: The Federation of Civil Society Organisations (FOCS) Manipur has categorically stated that a particular letter sent by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to the State Government on allowing movement of people from Myanmar 10 Kms inside India after obtaining ‘border pass’ from Assam Rifles is unacceptable.
FOCS has also demanded immediate withdrawal of the same letter in the interest of the people of Manipur.
It was Union Home Minister Amit Shah who pointed out that the Manipur violence was caused by illegal immigrants from Myanmar, FOCS recalled in a statement.
On February 8, 2024, the Union Home Minister announced scrapping of the Free Movement Regime in order to thwart all threats to India’s internal security and curtail challenges to the demography of the North Eastern States, it pointed out.
It is rather surprising that the Home Minister has recently come out with a new policy to allow cross-border movement between India and Myanmar for up to 10 Kms inside each other’s territory.
The Home Ministry’s new policy is unacceptable for it has rendered the scrapping of FMR meaningless, it asserted.
Unnatural growth of a number of new villages in some hill districts of Manipur due to incessant influx from Myanmar through the long porous border has been reported repeatedly.
A Cabinet Sub-Committee officially detected 2480 illegal immigrants from Myanmar in February 2023 and they were temporarily accommodated at Haolenphai and other places.
But these illegal immigrants scattered in different directions after the violent crisis erupted on May 3, 2023, FOCS said.
Moreover, MLA Leishiyo Keishing has already pointed out that illegal immigrants have outnumbered native people at several border villages of Kamjong district.
Highlighting a sudden spurt in criminal activities and demographic challenges posed by the illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Leishiyo Keishing wrote to the Chief Minister to deport the illegal immigrants.
Instead of taking up concrete measures to check the demographic challenges posed by incessant influx from Myanmar in Manipur, the Government of India has been following a policy which encourages more and more illegal immigration from Myanmar. This is rather unfortunate, it said.
The Government of India must stop seeing Manipur as a colonial State and put to an end all the policies which stem from such an outlook, FOCS demanded.
IMPHAL, Dec 29: The Federation of Civil Society Organisations (FOCS) Manipur has categorically stated that a particular letter sent by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to the State Government on allowing movement of people from Myanmar 10 Kms inside India after obtaining ‘border pass’ from Assam Rifles is unacceptable.
FOCS has also demanded immediate withdrawal of the same letter in the interest of the people of Manipur.
It was Union Home Minister Amit Shah who pointed out that the Manipur violence was caused by illegal immigrants from Myanmar, FOCS recalled in a statement.
On February 8, 2024, the Union Home Minister announced scrapping of the Free Movement Regime in order to thwart all threats to India’s internal security and curtail challenges to the demography of the North Eastern States, it pointed out.
It is rather surprising that the Home Minister has recently come out with a new policy to allow cross-border movement between India and Myanmar for up to 10 Kms inside each other’s territory.
The Home Ministry’s new policy is unacceptable for it has rendered the scrapping of FMR meaningless, it asserted.
Unnatural growth of a number of new villages in some hill districts of Manipur due to incessant influx from Myanmar through the long porous border has been reported repeatedly.
A Cabinet Sub-Committee officially detected 2480 illegal immigrants from Myanmar in February 2023 and they were temporarily accommodated at Haolenphai and other places.
But these illegal immigrants scattered in different directions after the violent crisis erupted on May 3, 2023, FOCS said.
Moreover, MLA Leishiyo Keishing has already pointed out that illegal immigrants have outnumbered native people at several border villages of Kamjong district.
Highlighting a sudden spurt in criminal activities and demographic challenges posed by the illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Leishiyo Keishing wrote to the Chief Minister to deport the illegal immigrants.
Instead of taking up concrete measures to check the demographic challenges posed by incessant influx from Myanmar in Manipur, the Government of India has been following a policy which encourages more and more illegal immigration from Myanmar. This is rather unfortunate, it said.
The Government of India must stop seeing Manipur as a colonial State and put to an end all the policies which stem from such an outlook, FOCS demanded.