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In northeast India, a border fence could cut through villages, houses and lives

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The Indian government is threatening to build a fence along the 1,643-kilometer ( 1,021-mile ) long Indo-Myanmar border.

Of the 990 buildings in the village of Longwa , 170 lie on the boundary line, including a church and an army camp.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said the government has decided to construct a fence.

The Indian state was very limited in these borderlands until recently.

Yhome, the expert, said that an effort to stop locals from crossing the border could violate the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People , which seeks to protect the integrity of border-straddling communities. “For us there is no Burma Longwa or India Longwa ," Yanlang , a 45-year-old village council member. "How can one village and one family be divided?” asked.