BRU
TRIBES– GEOGRAPHY
News:
For the first time, Bru
refugees to have no participation in Mizoram Assembly polls
What's
in the news?
●
For
the first time, Bru refugees will not
participate in elections in Mizoram as they were given permanent settlement in
Tripura under a Central government sponsored rehabilitation arrangement
that came into effect in January 2020.
Key
takeaways:
●
The
office of the CEO Mizoram earlier deleted over 14,000 Bru voters from the
electoral rolls after they became permanent residents of Tripura.
Who
are the Brus?
● Reangs or Brus are the second largest ethnic group in Mizoram.
●
Their
exodus in 1997 was spurred by violent clashes in Mamith subdivision, a
Reang-dominated area when they demanded the creation of an autonomous council
that was vehemently opposed by Mizo groups.
●
Around
34,000 people were forced to live in sub-human conditions in tents in Tripura.
No solution could be reached all these years.
● These people were housed in temporary
camps at Kanchanpur, in North Tripura.