Displaced Bru refugees from Mizoram who are living in makeshift transit camps in Tripura since last 22 years, submitted a memorandum addressed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah through Kanchanpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Abhedananda Baidya on Monday. AdvertisingThe memorandum sought a suspension to all ongoing initiatives of repatriation till their demands are fulfilled. 37,000 people of the Bru community fled Mamit, Kolasib and Lunglei districts of Mizoram during ethnic strife in 1997. AdvertisingAround 5,000 Bru returned in eight phases of repatriation held till today. It also says that the repatriation is not held through peaceful means but is coerced since ration supplies were stopped in the Bru camps before commencing their return to Mizoram.

Source: Indian Express October 21, 2019 16:30 UTC