Myanmar Coup Completes 3 years. India’s NE Is In Mess, Fencing Border Won’t Help

File photo of PM Narendra Modi with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar Defence Services, in July 2019.

The military coup in Myanmar completed three years on Thursday, February 1. While much of the world’s attention today has shifted away from the atrocities the Tatmadaw there has been carrying out against its own people, India has taken the decision to fence the entire 1,643-km border that it shares with Myanmar along the north-eastern states, and also to do away with the free movement regime (FMR) to check influx of refugees from Myanmar into India. While the government had initially been