Aizawl: Mizoram has agreed to resume the stalled repatriation of Bru refugees from neighbouring Tripura as the Centre has nodded to rehabilitation of displaced Mizo families in Tripura, State Home Minister R Lalzirliana said here on Monday.
“As the Union Home Minister agreed to give rehabilitation to the 80 Mizo families, who had been driven out of their homes in Sakhan Hills in Tripura by Bru militants, Mizoram will resume the repatriation of Brus from refugee camps in Tripura, ” Lalzirliana told a meeting of the Home department officials, concerned Deputy Commissioners and representatives of major NGOs and political parties at the Secretariat conference hall here on Monday.
The meeting discussed at length the issues of Bru repatriation and rehabilitation of the displaced Mizo families.
The repatriation process, which began in November 2010, was called off on June 6 last year by the Mizoram government after the NGOs and political parties demanded rehabilitation to the displaced Mizo families, who had been driven out of their homes in 1998 by Bru militants.
The Union Home Ministry in last September agreed to give rehabilitation to the displaced Mizo families.
Official sources said the Bru repatriation will resume from April next.
According to official records, Mizoram had so far repatriated 4119 Bru refugees belonging to 799 families from the six refugee camps in North Tripura. (UNI)
