𝐌𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐙𝐨 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠

The Zo Re-Unification Organisation (ZORO), a Mizoram-based body representing the Chin, Kuki, Mizo and Zomi tribes across India, Myanmar and Bangladesh,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 ancestry and bloodline. He reaffirmed that ZORO would continue to resist the proposal “with utmost seriousness,” describing the collective pushback from Mizoram as an effort to prevent an “Indanna bang” or “barrier wall.”

Renthlei said the organisation has extensively studied the Centre’s proposal and fears it will bring severe negative consequences, especially for ethnic Zo communities living on both sides of the border. He noted that communities across Mizoram and Myanmar have maintained close ties, with intermarriage still common. “If the border is fenced, these natural social bonds will be abruptly severed, cutting off close relatives and creating deep divisions among families,” he said, warning that such a move could fragment their identity and expose them to domination by external forces.