Sinlung /
12 October 2011

One Hundred Outsiders Found in Mizo Bru Camp

children at Bru campAizawl, Oct 12 : The representatives of major civil societies and political parties in Mizoram, who conducted a joint verification of the repatriated Bru refugees in Mamit district on the Mizoram-Tripura border today claimed to have found more than one hundred Bru’s who were not bona fide residents of the state.

J Lalsailova, the financial secretary of the central committee of the Young Mizo Association (YMA), said that the joint verification exercise was undertaken by three representatives each of the YMA and the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or Mizo Students’ federation.

Besides, two representatives each of major political parties a" the ruling Congress, the Mizo National Front ( MNF) and the BJP were also involved. The exercise was conducted between September 19 and 23.

The teams visited the villages where repatriated Bru’s were resettled and conducted the verification exercise in the presence of the Bru Coordination Committee leaders, Lalsailova said, adding that more than one hundred repatriated refugees were identified among the residents as not belonging to Mizoram.

As we will make the final compilation and would submit the list to the state government for further action,a? he said.

Thousands of Bru’s, who had fled Mizoram during the later part of 1997 and also in 2009 due to communal tension, returned to the state since November last year and were resettled in a refugee camp in Mamit district along the Mizoram-Tripura border.

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