{"id":253957,"date":"2023-07-29T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=253957"},"modified":"2023-07-29T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:33:15","slug":"the-free-movement-regime-along-the-india-myanmar-border-and-why-it-has-complicated-the-volatile-situation-in-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-free-movement-regime-along-the-india-myanmar-border-and-why-it-has-complicated-the-volatile-situation-in-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018free movement regime\u2019 along the India-Myanmar border, and why it has complicated the volatile situation in Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cThe \u2018free movement regime\u2019 along the India-Myanmar border, and why it has complicated the volatile situation in Manipur\u201d\u00a0 <\/b>published in<\/span> Indian Express on 29th July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Tribal Kuki-Chin people illegally migrating into India from Myanmar is one of the key issues in the ethnic conflict between Meiteis and Kukis in Manipur.<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to this, <\/span>questions have been raised on the Free Movement Regime (FMR) that facilitates migration across the Indo-Myanmar Border(IMB).<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Free Movement Regime (FMR) on the IMB?<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Source: Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The border between India and Myanmar runs for 1,643 km in the four states of Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The FMR is a mutually agreed arrangement between the two countries that allows tribes living along the border on either side to travel up to 16 km inside the other country without a visa.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FMR was implemented in 2018 as part of the India government\u2019s Act East policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, as<\/span> the crisis in Myanmar unfolded, India suspended the FMR in September 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why was the Free<\/b> Movement Regime(FMR) conceptualized?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The border between India and Myanmar was demarcated by the British in 1826, without seeking the opinion of the people living in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The border effectively divided people of the same ethnicity and culture into two nations without their consent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, FMR facilitates people-to-people contact. It was also supposed to provide impetus to local trade and business.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is the Free<\/b> Movement Regime (FMR) criticized now?<\/b><\/h2>\n

FMR has been criticized for unintentionally aiding illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and gun running.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Indo-Myanmar border runs through forested and undulating terrain, is almost entirely unfenced, and difficult to monitor. In Manipur, less than 6 km of the border is fenced.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the military coup in Myanmar in 2021, the ruling junta has launched a campaign of persecution against the Kuki-Chin peoples. This has pushed large numbers of Myanmar tribes into India, especially into Manipur and Mizoram where they have sought shelter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cThe \u2018free movement regime\u2019 along the India-Myanmar border, and why it has complicated the volatile situation in Manipur\u201d\u00a0 published in Indian Express on 29th July 2023. What is the News? Tribal Kuki-Chin people illegally migrating into India from Myanmar is one of the key issues in the… Continue reading The \u2018free movement regime\u2019 along the India-Myanmar border, and why it has complicated the volatile situation in Manipur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-253957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}