Overview

• The embargo will begin at midnight on September 8 across all Naga-inhabited areas, according to the United Naga Council.
• The decision was adopted at the UNC presidential council meeting on August 11.
• Truck movement on National Highways 2 and 37 is expected to be affected before the routes reach the Imphal Valley.
• The UNC says months of memoranda, rallies and agitations since January 2024 were met with an indifferent response from the Centre.
• The council describes the Free Movement Regime as recognition of cross-border cultural and familial ties and warns that fencing ancestral land would erode identity and rights.