Imphal, Sep 11
The Manipur government has requested the United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of the Naga community in the state, to withdraw the indefinite “Trade Embargo” along the National Highways in Naga-inhabited areas, officials said on Thursday.
The UNC and other Naga organisations enforced the Trade Embargo in all Naga people inhabited areas since midnight of September 8 in protest against the fencing along the India-Myanmar international border and the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR).
A senior official in Imphal said that hundreds of goods-laden and empty trucks, along with transport fuel carrying tankers, were stranded at different places on Imphal-Jiribam National Highway (NH-37) and Imphal-Dimapur National Highway (NH-2).