MBDPF says Bru repatriation uncertain

Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF), an umbrella organisation of the Bru refugees lodged in six relief camps in North Tripura, today said the proposed repatriation of Bru families from Tripura was still uncertain.
A press statement issued by the MBDPF alleged that the proposed repatriation was uncertain as the Centre and the government of Mizoram were reluctant to find ways and means for pragmatic solution to the Bru problems.
The statement, signed by A Sawibunga and Bruno Msha, President and General Secretary respectively of the MBDPF, said the problem would remain unless the government agreed to allot 5 hectares of land to each repatriated Bru familes.

The MBDPF would not be responsible if the Bru families refused to return to Mizoram during the repatriation process.
As per instruction from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mizoram government has prepared a road map for repatriation of 3,445 Bru families from Tripura relief camps from November 1.
The MBDPF statement has been issued when preparations are in full swing for the proposed repatriation and after a tripatite meeting of the representatives of the state governments of Mizoram and Tripura and the MBDPF was held at Dhamcherra in Tripura on Friday last.