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The Hindu · India · Myanmar's civil war spills into India's Northeast: refugees, insurgent alliances and drug money
Reports the Amit Shah-led MHA's June 11 announcement that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the India-Myanmar border will be formally ended and replaced with a fenced, managed border; India is accelerating 1,643 km of border-fencing construction across Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, with a stated completion target of 2028; justified as a counter to refugee influx and drug-network infiltration.
“India is ending the Free Movement Regime and accelerating 1,643 km of Myanmar border fencing, citing refugee flows and drug-network infiltration.”