ANSAM to picket govt offices for 5 days across Naga hills from today
Imphal: The All Naga Students' Association, Manipur (ANSAM), has declared a five-day total office picketing in all Naga-inhabited hill districts from June 23 to June 27 to protest against the India-Myanmar border fencing and the 'unilateral scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR)' by the Govt of India.
The association has also warned that any individual, contractor, transporter, or agency involved in transporting, storing, or facilitating construction materials for the ongoing border fencing project will be held fully accountable for any consequences arising from their actions.
The resolution in this regard was taken during the association's presidential council meeting held on June 16.
Terming the protest as a united people's movement in defence of the ancestral Naga homeland and the kinship shared across artificial borders, the association said fencing through the heart of ancestral Naga domain and scrapping of FMR is an assault on Nagas' identity, unity and way of life.
The association has therefore urged all Nagas to extend full cooperation and solidarity to the movement to safeguard Naga history, heritage and human dignity.
ANSAM has directed all its constituent units and subordinate bodies to strictly enforce the picketing programme and has made it clear that any escalation or untoward incident during the protest would be the sole responsibility of the Govt of India and Manipur govt.
Earlier, ANSAM announced a 48-hour office picketing protest from June 2, which paralysed normal functioning of govt offices across Naga-inhabited hill districts.
During the protest, tensions escalated at the Senapati district headquarters, and a vehicle belonging to the superintendent of police was damaged in the confrontation.
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