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izawl, Sep 20 : A team of officials from Mizoram Election department issued electoral photo identity cards (EPICs) to 98.65 per cent of Bru voters, now lodged in six relief camps of neighbouring North Tripura district.
State’s Joint Chief Electoral Officer Lalhmingthanga said the total number of Bru voters who received the EPICs are 6,479 while the total number of Bru refugees included in the voters’ list are 8,061 as per the draft electoral rolls of 2008.
“Our officials conducted the survey inside the six relief camps and there are 6,627 voters identified as bona fide residents of Mizoram…” he said.
The team from Mizoram was conducting the survey in the six relief camps under the watchful eyes of the representative from the Election Commission, he said.
Thousands of Bru refugees fled Mizoram and migrated en masse to neighbouring Tripura during 1997 after Bru insurgents, who declared armed insurrection against the Mizoram Government and the Mizo people, instructed them to take refuge in that State.
They have been languishing in the relief camps ever since the underground Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) and Bru Liberation Front of Mizoram (BLFM) signed agreement with the state government and came overground.
The Centre’s failure to release fund earmarked for repatriation of the Brus from Tripura was attributed to the hurdle that prevented the implementation of the repatriation process.
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