India-Myanmar border to be fenced in a bid to stop infiltrators

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced that the India-Myanmar border will be fenced like the India-Bangladesh border, in a bid to stop infiltrators from entering the country.

This announcement comes at a time when the Mizoram government had raised concerns with the Central Government over the infiltration of army personnel from Myanmar amidst soaring tensions between the rebel forces and the junta regime in Myanmar.

As per reports, about 600 Myanmar Army members have crossed into India and have sought shelter in Mizoram's Lawngtlai district after their camps were seized by the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The soldiers have been accommodated in an Assam Rifles camp for now.

Established in the 1970’s the Free Movement Regime between India and Myanmar would come to an end with the installation of a fence along the border.​