Mizoram (Insurgency North East): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2015

Two persons were arrested and about 2000 rounds of ammunition seized by the Special Branch of the Mizoram police at Phunchawng village near Aizawl in Aizawl District, reports The Shillong Times. On January 16, Laldinnghaka (28) of Lawngtlai district and Rohmingthanga (38) of Tanhril near Aizawl, were arrested and a total of 1,986 rounds of ammunition of US-made M-16 rifle were seized, police said. The seizure was made following a raid of a taxi parked in Phunchawng village. Police said the accused claimed the ammunition was smuggled from Myanmar to be sold to insurgents in Bangladesh. Read less...

Close to 500 families of the Bru tribe have reported to the Mizoram government that they have “self-repatriated” themselves into the state from relief camps in Tripura since the last formal process in June last year, when less than 280 families returned, reports The Indian Express on January 27. Combined with the more than 530 families who have returned home on their own in the past, the data appears to underline the increasing desire by many to return home, often in secret, from almost two decades of squalid exile despite resistance by community leaders at the camps who want better rehabilitation packages and security. In all, a little less than 670 families have come home under the formal process, which involves both the Tripura and Mizoram governments announcing dates, arranging for transportation and setting up stalls to facilitate their return. Close to 500 families (455 of them to Mamit district, between 20 and 30 others in Kolasib district) who have reported they have come home on their own await formal verification and thus have not yet been given the rehabilitation packages Read less...

Mizoram Home Minister R Lalzirliana stated that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has agreed on January 30, to organise a final six-month repatriation process for internally-displaced Bru tribals, after which all those who do not return home from Tripura will be removed from Mizoram’s electoral rolls and further relief to them will also be stopped. Official records show almost 4,000 Bru families who have voting rights in Mizoram continue to live in the relief camps. It has also been decided that Tripura, where many of displaced Brus live in s six relief camps, would meanwhile improve living conditions there and double the current financial aid allotted to each displaced Bru tribal Read less...