Summary:
Agartala, Sept 12 (PTI) Laksiti Reang, a 40 year old Bru woman, who fled from her house in Mizoram’s Mamit district 24 year ago following ethnic conflicts and took shelter at Naisinghpara relief camp in Tripura’s North Tripura district has finally got a permanent home at Haduklau, a tribal hamlet in Tripura"s Dhalai district.
She along with her four member family now live at her own house with all amenities built out of mony from a relief package sanctioned by the union government.
Over 400 Bru people left a relief camp in the third week of April last to set up houses on land provided by the government as a measure to permanently solve the refugee status of the community.
Thousands of the Bru tribal people have been living in relief camps in Tripura since 1997.
They had fled their ancestral homeland in Mizoram to reach the neighbouring state, victims of ethnic clashes.
By now, the number of the internally displaced people has risen to over 37,136.