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January 17
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The Special Investigation
Team (SIT) of Mizoram Police arrested two Bru militants who were
involved in the November 13, 2009 killing of a Mizo youth, Zarzokima
(18) of Bungthuam.
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February 4
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Border Security Force (BSF) said
that a cadre belonging to anti-talks faction of the National Democratic
Front of Bodoland (NDFB), identified as Swmkwr Narzari, was arrested
by its personnel from Mizoram.
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February 16
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The Reang refugees said they would
"fight to the finish" for the unconditional release of one of
their leaders arrested by the Mizoram Police on January 23. The
president of the Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum, Elvis Chorky,
on in Kanchanpur in North District in Tripura said, "We are prepared
for a long struggle. Unless Laldongliana is released unconditionally
and the charge of murder against him is withdrawn, we will fight
to the finish."
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March 15
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Two chief operatives belonging
to Lamyanba Khuman group of the Military Council faction of the
Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), identified as 'publicity secretary'
Laishram Manao alias Ranjit alias Loya alias Anik alias
Tongaba (36) and 'project officer' Naorem Anand Singh (35), were
reportedly arrested by a combined team of Manipur Police and Mizoram
Police from Aizawl town.
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May 6
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The BSF decided to gear up its
vigil along Mizoram’s 318 kilometres hilly and forested-infested
borders with Bangladesh to stop infiltration. BSF Director General
Raman Srivastava assured Chief Minister Pu. Lalthanhawla in Aizawl
said that there would be more deployment of forces along the border
in Mizoram.
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May 10
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Repatriation of Bru refugees from
North District in Tripura, scheduled to be held from May 11 to
15, has run into a deadlock. Elvis Chorky, president of Mizoram
Bru Displaced People Forum, alleged that they had received a list
of 284 families to be repatriated to Mizoram, whereas the exact
number of Bru families that fled from the following an ethnic
conflict in November 2009 stood at 800.
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May 11
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The repatriation of Bru refugees
did not take place as planned because the Mizoram Government did
not arrange transport and security for them, a refugee leader
said.
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May 18
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With the Mizoram Government having
agreed to provide vehicles to 462 Bru refugees in Tripura relief
camps to return home, one of their leaders said they would do
so from May 25.
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May 21
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The repatriation of Bru refuges
began when 140 families from Naisingpara and Asahapra refugee
camps of North District in Tripura returned to Mizoram.
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May 25
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Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram,
after discussing rehabilitation of Bru refugees with Mizoram Chief
Minister Lal Thanhawla and his Cabinet colleagues in Aizawl informed
that 215 Bru families have returned so far and asked the Brus
and the Mizos to live together in peace and harmony. He also asked
the Bru refugees who are still in Tripura to return to Mizoram
by October 2010.
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May 26
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Out of 460 Bru families which
fled Mizoram to Tripura in November 2009, 270 returned home as
the repatriation process ended. According to an estimate of Mizoram
government, 460 Bru families fled the state to Tripura following
the gunning down of a youth by Bru militants near the Mizoram-Tripura
border on November 13, 2009.
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June 11
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The Mizoram Government was making
necessary arrangements for repatriation of Bru refugees lodged
at six relief camps in Kanchanpur sub-division in Tripura by October
2010, State Home department officials said in Aizawl.
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June 23
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Two unidentified persons were
arrested by the BSF from Aizawl and 718 packets of RDX and two
AK-47 rifles were recovered from their possession. They smuggled
the arms and explosives from Bangladesh, the release said.
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August 19
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The Mizoram
Government has received the list of Bru refugees, lodged in six
relief camps in North District in Tripura, submitted by Bru Displaced
People’s Forum.
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Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that while
the year 2009 was a distinct improvement on the year 2008, it
is in the 2010 that we have seen a dramatic decline in the number
of incidents and in the number of casualties in the Northeast.
There have been only 464 incidents until August 15, as against
1,297 and 1,561 for the whole year in 2009 and 2008 respectively.
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