Bru's Submit Memo to Mizo CM on Repatriation

Aizawl, Jan 12: The displaced Brus, now lodged in six camps of Tripura, have demanded that they be resettled in Kolasib and Mamit districts of Mizoram in grouped villages -- a demand which has been rejected by the state's home minister.

A memorandum submitted to Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla by Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) here rejected the state's proposal that the Brus on repatriation would settle in the villages they stayed in before taking refuge in Tripura in 1997, official sources said today.

Refusing the proposal of the Bru leaders to settle them in the two districts, Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana accused them of refusing to return to Mizoram as they were enjoying comfortable lives in the relief camps, the sources said.