Plan to repatriate Bru refugees fail, fate of 32,000 uncertain

The latest initiative to send the Bru refugees living in relief camps in north Tripura back to Mizoram failed.
Only 171 families of the targeted 4,447 returned to their homeland, officials said on Saturday when the repatriation came to an end.
The fate of around 32,000 inmates remaining in the camps now hangs in balance.
The officials said free ration was distributed to the inmates of the camps at Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions for the last time on Saturday as, according to government instructions, it would be stopped from Sunday.
Altogether 4,447 displaced Bru families were scheduled to return to neighbouring Mizoram from where they started fleeing since 1997 following ethnic clashes.

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