Aizawl, Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Saturday urged the Center to understand Mizoram's position in sheltering refugees from neighboring Bangladesh, an official statement said.
Around 2,000 Zo ethnic people from Bangladesh have taken refuge in Mizoram since 2022, a state home department official said.
The statement said that during a brief meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, Lalduhoma informed him that his government cannot deport or deport Zo ethnic people from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Could.
He informed the Prime Minister that many people from the Bavam tribe, one of the ethnic Mizo tribes from Bangladesh, have been taking refuge in Mizoram since 2022, and many of them are still trying to enter the state.
They began entering Mizoram in November 2022 following a military offensive by the Bangladesh Army against the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), an ethnic rebel group fighting for a separate state.
The statement said the two leaders also discussed other issues, including the shifting of the Assam Rifles base from Aizawl to Zokhawsang on the eastern outskirts of the state capital and the implementation of the hand-holding policy, a flagship program of the Mizoram government. Is.
Meanwhile, Zo Reunification Organization (ZORO), an Aizawl-based Mizo group representing the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi tribes of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, has asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to push back Bangladeshi refugees seeking asylum in Mizoram. ) criticized.
Around 2,000 Zo ethnic people from Bangladesh have taken refuge in Mizoram since 2022, a state home department official said.
The statement said that during a brief meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, Lalduhoma informed him that his government cannot deport or deport Zo ethnic people from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Could.
He informed the Prime Minister that many people from the Bavam tribe, one of the ethnic Mizo tribes from Bangladesh, have been taking refuge in Mizoram since 2022, and many of them are still trying to enter the state.
They began entering Mizoram in November 2022 following a military offensive by the Bangladesh Army against the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), an ethnic rebel group fighting for a separate state.
The statement said the two leaders also discussed other issues, including the shifting of the Assam Rifles base from Aizawl to Zokhawsang on the eastern outskirts of the state capital and the implementation of the hand-holding policy, a flagship program of the Mizoram government. Is.
Meanwhile, Zo Reunification Organization (ZORO), an Aizawl-based Mizo group representing the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi tribes of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, has asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to push back Bangladeshi refugees seeking asylum in Mizoram. ) criticized.
