Mizo tight security on Indo-Burma border

By Surajit Khaund
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

August 13, 2002:Worried over large-scale exodus of Burmese nationals and increasing incidents of crime, the Mizoram government of the northeast India has decided deploy more forces along the Indo-Burma borders.

The Mizoram government officials told this correspondent today that Indian Reserve force battalion would be deployed along the border to contain the activities of anti-social elements. In this context, they said that the porous Indo-Burma border of Mizoram would be guarded properly so that the Burmese nationals can sneak into the state.

Asked about the deportation of Burmese nationals, they informed that altogether 4,110 Burmese nationals including 2074 women have already left the state.

The government had set a deadline before August 13 for the Burmese nationals to quit the state in view of a rape incident allegedly committed by a Burmese national recently. After the incident the Mizo had demanded the state government to take stern action against the Burmese nationals staying in the state.