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Mizoram Bru refugee repatriation from Tripura begins | | The first batch of Bru (Reang) refugees of Mizoram have commenced their return back after spending almost a year in North Tripura. "About 154 families from Naisingpara
and Ashapara will start moving to Mizoram. This is the first day of repatriation
of the new displace persons who have been sidplayed after November 2009. They
had fled after the incident that took place at Bungthuan village on 13 November
(2009). Today all the vehicles have come", said refugee leader Elvis Chorkhy.
On the Union Home Ministry's advice, another 105 families will be repatriated
to Mizoram, he added. However, the fate of more than 30,000 refugees who fled
Mizoram 13 years ago hangs in the balance. Mizoram Government officials along
with their Tripura counterparts are supervising the repatriation from Tripura
relief camps to Mamit district in western Mizoram. "On 13 November (2009) from
Bungthuan village all the villagers took shelter here after a communal violence
flared up in Mizoram. Now, the Mizoram Government has assured us the security
for repatriation and we were to go on 21 May but could not. Now we are going but
another more than 31,000 who shall be left behind will be repatriated gradually
and the Mizoram government has assured this", Bonkhuma, a Bru, who left for Mizoram.
Around 1,000 tribal refugees would be repatriated in five batches till May 26.
Chorkhy, who is also president of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF),
added that they shall observe the repatriation and subsequent resettlement of
the tribal refugees in their villages and then shall decide the repatriation of
the remaining evacuees. Since 1997, around 32,000 Reang tribal refugees have taken
shelter in six camps in north Tripura, adjacent to Mizoram. They fled western
Mizoram after ethnic clashes with the majority Mizos over the killing of a Mizo
forest official. The refugees' repatriation from Tripura to Mizoram was stopped
in November last year when a mob in western Mizoram burnt down around 700 tribal
houses after an 18-year-old Mizo youth was shot dead by unidentified miscreants.
Following the arson and violence, about 5,500 displaced Reang tribals took shelter
afresh in adjacent north Tripura. |
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