Mizoram group requests Center to ban Myanmar

Mizoram group requests Center to ban Myanmar

A Mizoram group representing the Zo indigenous people of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar has petitioned to ban President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Military-ruled Myanmar.

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The Zo Reunification Organization (ZORO) includes people from the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi group, who have asked the Center not to remove Myanmar citizens who have escaped military rule and provided them with humanitarian shelter Have been crossed for

His letters to the President and Prime Minister were presented through Mizoram Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai on March 12, two days after the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered paramilitary Assam Rifles and four northeastern states to check “illegal arrivals” in India from the Myanmar border. Asked for

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Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram share a 1,643-km-long border with Myanmar, and people on both sides are ethnically related. The Mizo people of Mizoram and the Kuki-Zomi communities in Manipur have a strong kinship with Chin across the border.

ZORO sought Delhi’s help for the restoration of democracy in Myanmar and immediately released State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Wint Myint and other leaders of the National League for Democracy, who were detained after controlling for an elected official went. Government of Myanmar on 1 February.

The organization said that India should take the lead in resolving the current political crisis in Myanmar by banning the military junta for human rights violations. “We request you to take up the matter on a war footing to save the lives of innocent people and for the best interests of supporting democracy with the international community,” the letter said.

The six Mizoram districts – Champai, Longtalai, Siyaha, Satual, Hanathial and Sership – share a 404 km long porous border with the Chin State of Myanmar. At least 100 people have taken refuge in the border areas of Mizoram, including the deserts of the Myanmar Police and the Fire Services Department.

Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga had earlier announced that his government would provide asylum and other relief to Myanmar’s refugees on humanitarian grounds. While some refugees are being provided food and shelter by the district administration, many others have reportedly been accommodated by locals in the border villages.

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