Aizawl: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Sunday (March 21) held a meeting with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung to debate the present political situation and the hardships being confronted by the Zo ethnic folks within the neighbouring nation.
Speaking on the digital meeting, through which US-based Mizo leaders additionally participated, Zoramthanga expressed solidarity with the folks of Myanmar.
“Had a fruitful meeting (online) this morning with Zin Mar Aung, Hon’ble Foreign Minister, Myanmar. Our thoughts and prayers are with Myanmar in these trying times,” the chief minister tweeted.
“It is our prayer that your sufferings and mental distress died down very soon,” he added.
Had a fruitful meeting (on-line) this morning with Zin Mar Aung, Hon’ble Foreign Minister, Myanmar.
Our ideas and prayers are with #Myanmar in these attempting occasions. https://t.co/QLzZhwTKxC pic.twitter.com/QIw6wVkCxA
— Zoramthanga (@ZoramthangaCM) March 21, 2021
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The two leaders mentioned the present political situation in Myanmar amid a coup in February, an official on the Chief Minister’s Office mentioned, in response to information company PTI.
The meeting was to increase solidarity and name for peace among the many Zo ethnic folks of Myanmar who’ve turn into victims of “persecution and atrocities” after the army junta took energy within the neighbouring nation, he mentioned.
Fleeing atrocities, over 500 folks from the neighbouring nation have crossed over to Mizoram in the previous few weeks, even because the Centre directed the 4 Myanmar- bordering Northeastern states to stop unlawful immigration and guarantee expeditious deportation.
Mizoram shares a 510-km-long unfenced and porous worldwide border with Myanmar.
On March 18, Zoramthanga had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi searching for asylum and reduction for the Myanmar nationals who’ve taken refuge within the nation.
The chief minister mentioned that India can’t flip a blind eye to the humanitarian disaster.
Most areas in Myanmar that share border with Mizoram are inhabited by the Chin communities, who share the identical ancestry and ethnicity because the Mizos, he talked about, dismissing the Union Home Ministry’s advisory of checking unlawful inflow as “not acceptable”.
Most of the Myanmar nationals taking refuge in Mizoram belong to the Chin neighborhood and are being supplied reduction and shelter by the native NGOs, officers mentioned.
The state’s apex scholar physique Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) in collaboration with 4 different outfits on Saturday organised charity live shows in numerous elements of Aizawl to boost cash for the Myanmarese refugees.
Over Rs 5.19 lakh was raised by way of the programme, MZP common secretary Lalnunmawia Pautu instructed PTI.
MZP president B Vanlaltana alongside with different leaders are visiting Delhi at current to boost the problem with the Centre.
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