Aizawl: A day after all aids for Bru refugees in Tripura camps were discontinued, their leaders on Tuesday said they would soon appeal to the authorities to resume the repatriation that had concluded on September 25.
After only 40 of the 5,407 Bru refugee families returned to Mizoram during the stipulated one month of repatriation, the authorities discontinued all kinds of subsistence allowances, including ration supplies and cash dole to them.
The Centre had earlier warned that assistance doled out to them would be stopped from October 1 and the camps The Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF), the apex body of the inmates of six Bru relief camps in North Tripura district, held a meeting. The people were informed that the MBDPF would soon submit a memorandum to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Mizoram and Tripura governments asking for resumption of the repatriation process, MBDPF general secretary Bruno Msha said. The Forum also intended to appeal for resuming the doles, including food grain and cash to the inmates, Msha said. (PTI)
