The Bru resettlement issue that has once again hogged the limelight with serious resistance from the local communities seemed to have once again marred with severe complexities with the Joint Movement Committee comprising Nagarik Suraksha Manch and local Mizo bodies including Mizo Convention going for an indefinite strike on Wednesday.
The committees have started indefinite strike protesting against Bru re-settlement in Kanchanpur sub-division and demanding inclusion representatives of both the organizations as part of site selection process. The members of the Joint movement Committee participated in the hunger strike maintaining social distancing and wearing masks as per norms due to Covid19 situation.
The Joint Movement Committee resorted to indefinite hunger strike in protest against the government’s way of implementation of the Bru re-settlement without consulting and taking the locals into confidence.
“As we are original inhabitants of the land, the government must accept us as most vital stakeholders and as a solution; and not see us as problems. It must create room for dialogue for successful joint problem solving of the long-standing Mizoram Bru problems”, says Dr Zairemthiama Pachuau, Chairman of the Joint Movement Committee and General Secretary of Mizo Convention.
Notably, Bru people fled from their native villages in Mizoram in 1997 after an ethnic clash and took refuge in six relief camps in North Tripura. Of late, several alleged anti-social activities, looting and violence by Bru people, earned a bad name for them. During anti-CAA movement in December last, Bru inhabitants of relief camps were allegedly involved in violence and ransacking shops in Anandabazar and adjoining areas. Many Bengali families fled from their houses and took shelter in local Police Station due to violence allegedly unleashed by Bru people.
In this backdrop, an agreement was signed in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a multi-party meeting which allowed re-settlement of Bru people in Tripura as citizens of Tripura. However, both the Nagarik Manch and local Mizo people of Jampui Hill remained defiant with the demand that there would be no re-settlement of Bru in Kanchanpur sub-division and near Jampui hill.
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