Aizawl, Feb. 28 -- The Mizoram assembly on Wednesday adopted an official resolution, opposing the plan to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) with Myanmar.

The resolution moved by Home Minister K. Sapdanga also urged the Centre not to construct a fence along the international border and scrap the FMR.

It urged the Narendra Modi government to instead take steps to ensure that the Zo ethnic people, who have been divided and scattered in different countries due to the British's divide-and-rule policy, are unified under one administrative unit.

While moving the resolution, K. Sapdanga said that

the Zo ethnic people, who have inhabited Mizoram and the Chin hills for centuries and once lived under their ow...