MZP urges Mizoram govt to secure release of abducted person

Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or the Mizo students federation today urged the Mizoram government to make concerted efforts to secure the release of private telecom company employee, now still in captivity of Bru and NLFT militants inside Bangladesh.
The MZP, in a press statement, while expressing happiness over the release of two Mizo hostages by the abductors yesterday, regretted that Deep Mondal, a resident of West Bengal and an employee of the Airtel company was still kept as a hostage.
"We want those people coming from outside the state to work for the development of Mizoram to feel safe, and also be completely safe," the statement said, adding that if people from other states found that Mizoram was no longer peaceful, developmental works in the state would be adversely affected.

The MZP warned the Bru goons that Mizo students would resort to any means to secure the release of Mondal and also urged them to stop earning money from the blood of the Mizos and people working in the state.
Two Mizos - Sanglianthanga and Lalzamliana, along with Mondal were abducted by an armed Bru group called Bru National Development Front of Mizoram from the old Anti Poaching Camp at Chikha inside the Dampa Tiger Reserve in the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura border Mamit district on November 23 last.
The abducted persons were kept in captivity since then inside Bangladesh by the NLFT militants and the two Mizos were released yesterday while Mondal remained in captivity and the abductors demanded Rs five crore ransom from the Airtel company.

Meanwhile, 212 Bru families from four villages in Mamit fled to Tripura since January 13 for fear of communal backlash from the Mizos as the persons abducted by Bru goons remained in captivity raising the anger of the Mizos.
Mamit district SP Rodingliana Chawngthu told PTI today that majority of those who fled returned and others were also returning after learning the release of two Mizo hostages.
No violent incident has occurred anywhere in the district, Chawngthu added.