BRU TRIBES - POLITY
News: Tripura
polls: Dilemma for first-time Bru voters in their new home
What's in the news?
● Over
14,000 Brus displaced from Mizoram have been registered to vote in Tripura
since their rehabilitation process began in April 2021, but they are divided on
which party should get the credit.
Bru Refugees:
● Bru
or Reang is a community indigenous to
Northeast India living mostly across Assam, Mizoram and Tripura. In
Tripura, they are recognized as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.
● The
Bru are the second most populous tribe of Tripura
after the Tripuris.
● Brus
speak the Reang dialect of Bru language
which is Tibeto Burmese origin and is locally referred to as Kau Bru.
● The
Hojagiri folk dance of the Reang
subtribe.
What is the issue of Brus?
● The
displaced Bru people from Mizoram
have been living in various camps in Tripura since 1997.
○ An
ethnic violence forced thousands of people from the Bru tribe to leave their
homes in Mizoram.
● As
many as 32,876 people belonging to 5,407 families are living in the refugee
camps in the Jampui Hills of Tripura.