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Refugees from Mizoram begin to return to their homes in Tripura | The Bru (Reang) refugees of Mizoram state, who have been living in neighbouring Tripura after ethnic clashes forced them to flee, have begun returning to their homes.
Families that had fled after clashes to refugee camps in North Tripura district
are now returning in batches to their homes in Mizoram. "About 154 families from
Naisingpara and Ashapara will start moving to Mizoram. This is the first day (May
22) of repatriation of the new displaced persons who have been displaced after
November 2009. They had fled after the incident that took place at Bungthuan village
on 13th November. Today all the vehicles have come," said Elvis Chorkhy, President
of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF). Mizoram government officials
along with their Tripura counterparts are supervising the repatriation from Tripura
relief camps to Mizoram's Mamit district. "On 13th November, from Bungthuan village
all the villagers took shelter here after a communal violence flared up in Mizoram.
Now the Mizoram government assured us the security for repatriation and we were
to go on 21st May but could not. Now we are going but more than 31,000 who shall
be left behind will be repatriated gradually, and the Mizoram government has assured
this," said Bonkhuma, a refugee. On the Union Home Ministry's advice, Mizoram
shall repatriate another 105 families, numbering over 1,000 tribal refugees, in
five batches by May 26. Since 1997, around 32,000 Bru tribal refugees have taken
shelter in six camps in North Tripura, after ethnic clashes with Mizos over the
killing of a Mizo forest official. The refugees' repatriation from Tripura to
Mizoram was stopped in last November when a mob in Mizoram burnt down around 700
tribal houses after an 18-year-old Mizo youth was shot dead by unidentified miscreants. |
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