A day before the tribal leaders' meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi to press for their demand for creation of a separate state for tribals, the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), apex body of the Meitei .
The Manipur government has expressed concern about reports of 700 illegal immigrants entering the state within a few days in July. According to the Home Department's statement, 718 illegal immigrants, including 301 children, crossed into Manipur's Chandel district on July 22 and 23, during the period when the violence in Manipur was raging.
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The border between India and Myanmar runs for 1,643 km in the four states of Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh. The FMR allows tribes living along the border on either side to travel up to 16 km inside the other country, without a visa.
While the 1,600-kilometer border between India and Myanmar has seen waves of Burmese refugees fleeing to India as the civil war and air strikes have intensified, the Chinese government has been vocal about its support of Myanmar's military junta. Inevitably, already tense relations between China and India