Brus demand resumption of ration, threaten roadblock from

An organisation of Bru refugees on Tuesday threatened to launch an indefinite roadblock from Thursday demanding resumption of free ration and cash-dole to the 35,000 displaced people living in relief camps in Tripura.

The Centre has not supplied ration and cash dole to the refugees for October while the repatriation process of the displaced Bru people is still on.

Altogether 4,447 Bru displaced families, lodged in the relief camps at Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of North Tripura district, are scheduled to return to neighbouring Mizoram from where they had fled since 1997 following ethnic clashes.

"The hungry and desperate displaced Brus could no longer merely watch the incessant crying of innocent children, bed-ridden patients and lactating mother for food," Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) wrote to North Tripura District Magistrate Ravel H Kumar on Tuesday.

The letter was sent to Kumar five days after three Bru organisations had written another letter to him urging the government to "continue free ration and cash-dole until an amicable solution and the repatriation process is concluded."