Bru leaders to ask govt for resumption of repatriation

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Press Trust of India Aizawl
Last Updated : Oct 02 2018 | 6:40 PM IST

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 on Monday.

The Centre had earlier warned that assistance doled out to them would be stopped from October 1 and the camps

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First Published: Oct 02 2018 | 6:40 PM IST

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