The Zo Re-Unification Organisation (ZORO), a Mizoram-based body representing the Chin, Kuki, Mizo and Zomi tribes across India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, on November 21, reiterated its strong opposition to the central government’s reported move to restart fencing along the Mizoram stretch of the Indo-Myanmar border.

The group claimed that New Delhi has revived the plan after briefly halting it due to resistance from the state government and civil society organisations.

Mizoram shares a 510-km-long border with Myanmar’s Chin state, with whom the Mizo people share deep ethnic, cultural and familial ties. Addressing a press conference, ZORO vice president L. Ramdinliana Renthlei said the organisation considers the fencing plan “unacceptable” as it threatens to divide people who share the same

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