Bru front withdraws from refugee repatriation accord

  • | Tuesday | 17th July, 2018

Altogether 5,407 Bru families, displaced from Mizoram, have been living in refugee camps of Tripura for the past 21 years. After their return, Bru families would be settled in three districts - Kolasib, Lunglei and Mamit - in western Mizoram where they used to live. GUWAHATI: The Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) on Monday pulled out of the July 3 quadrilateral agreement between it, the Centre and the Tripura and Mizoram governments on the respatriation of Bru refugees. "We have come out of the treaty signed in Delhi because of protests by people living in the camps against the MBDPF leadership. Ethnic flare-up in Mizoram in 1997 forced the Brus to flee from their homes to neighbouring Tripura and they were housed in six make-shift refugee camps located in Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of North Tripura district.

GUWAHATI: The Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) on Monday pulled out of the July 3 quadrilateral agreement between it, the Centre and the Tripura and Mizoram governments on the respatriation of Bru refugees. Altogether 5,407 Bru families, displaced from Mizoram, have been living in refugee camps of Tripura for the past 21 years."We have come out of the treaty signed in Delhi because of protests by people living in the camps against the MBDPF leadership. Our pullout was formally signed by our president (Sawibunga) in the presence of three officials of the Tripura government," said MBDPF general secretary Bruno Msha.A section of Bru inmates at the Naisingpara camp are on a hunger strike since Wednesday demanding advance payment of the rehabilitation money. The rehabilitation package, among other benefits, assures financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh to be kept in fixed deposit in the name of the head of the family for two years.The Centre, however, does not want to change the repatriation plan. An MHA source said that a special secretary of the ministry will arrive in Agartala on Wednesday and hold meetings with the representatives of the two state governments and MBDPF where the repatriation action plan will be finalised. "The central government is determined to see that the repatriation process is completed as per schedule," the source said.Msha said the forum is meeting to discuss the fallout of the withdrawal from the agreement under which all 5407 families comprising 32,875 Brus were to be repatriated to Mizoram by September 30. After their return, Bru families would be settled in three districts - Kolasib, Lunglei and Mamit - in western Mizoram where they used to live. Ethnic flare-up in Mizoram in 1997 forced the Brus to flee from their homes to neighbouring Tripura and they were housed in six make-shift refugee camps located in Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of North Tripura district.

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