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Over 80 refugees from Bangladesh enter Mizoram on Sunday

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HT Bureau

GUWAHATI, May 20: More than 80 refugees from Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) entered Mizoram on Sunday.

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Sources said that the refugees have traversed in forest for more than a month to reach Mizoram from their villages in CHT, it said.

Many of them did not possess proper clothing and they have been without proper food for several weeks, it said.

About 300 people belonging to the Bawm tribe, one of the ethnic Mizo tribes from Bangladesh have so far fled to Mizoram during the past few weeks.

About 1,241 ethnic Mizoram communities from Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts have already taken refuge in Lawngtlai district.

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They began entering Mizoram in November 2022 due to a military offensive by the Bangladeshi army against the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), an ethnic insurgent group fighting for a separate state.

 

 

 

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