Mizoram (Insurgency North East): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2018

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January - 9	Nearly 1,440 Myanmarese nationals who took shelter in Mizoram following a clash between militants and the army there in November 2017 have refused to return to Myanmar, reports The Telegraph on January 10. At least 1,600 Myanmarese people from several villages in Chin state had taken refug Read more... Nearly 1,440 Myanmarese nationals who took shelter in Mizoram following a clash between militants and the army there in November 2017 have refused to return to Myanmar, reports The Telegraph on January 10. At least 1,600 Myanmarese people from several villages in Chin state had taken refuge in Lawngtlai district of Mizoram since November 25. A source stated that ‘While a few refugees returned, 1,440 people, including 773 women and 442 minors, refused to return home’. Officials said some of the refugees even tried to construct houses but the district administration stopped them and sent them back to the relief camps. Read less...
January - 15	An unidentified man was wounded in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in an unspecified location in south Mizoram along the Indo-Myanmar border on January 15, tweeted official twitter handle of Eastern Army command. The victim was later evacuated by Assam Rifles (AR) and locals. Read more... An unidentified man was wounded in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in an unspecified location in south Mizoram along the Indo-Myanmar border on January 15, tweeted official twitter handle of Eastern Army command. The victim was later evacuated by Assam Rifles (AR) and locals. Read less...
January - 22	Superintendent of Police of Lawngtlai stated that over 1,400 Myanmarese nationals who took refuge in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district following clash between Arakan militants and the Army in November 2017 have refused to return to their country, reports Northeast Today on January 22. The refugees Read more... Superintendent of Police of Lawngtlai stated that over 1,400 Myanmarese nationals who took refuge in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district following clash between Arakan militants and the Army in November 2017 have refused to return to their country, reports Northeast Today on January 22. The refugees were mainly from the border villages of Varang, Paletwa, Pakangwa and Mulaw in Myanmar’s Chin state. On December 2017, authorities had stated that registration of 1,600 Myanmarese nationals have been undertaken to ascertain the number of refugees in Lawngtlai. Read less...
January - 25	An Assam Rifles (AR) official stated on January 25 that they have sent their Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel to areas bordering Myanmar in Lawngtlai District after a villager was killed and another injured by landmines, reports Northeast Today. An Indian national identified as Khusoma Read more... An Assam Rifles (AR) official stated on January 25 that they have sent their Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) personnel to areas bordering Myanmar in Lawngtlai District after a villager was killed and another injured by landmines, reports Northeast Today. An Indian national identified as Khusoma was severely injured by a landmine on January 18 and she succumbed to her injuries the following day. Earlier another individual identified as Jitua Tongchongya was seriously injured in a landmine blast near Mizoram-Myanmar border pillar number two on January 15. Read less...
January - 29	Mizoram Government has started to repatriate over 32,000 Bru people from six relief camps in neighboring Tripura from the first week of March 2018, reports The Telegraph on January 29. The Government of India (GoI) has released INR 79 million as the first installment for the repatriation e Read more... Mizoram Government has started to repatriate over 32,000 Bru people from six relief camps in neighboring Tripura from the first week of March 2018, reports The Telegraph on January 29. The Government of India (GoI) has released INR 79 million as the first installment for the repatriation expenditure; while the State Government estimated that over INR 123 million would be required for the purpose. An inspection team of officials of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) and the Mizoram Government would visit the relief camps in February to identify the Brus, who are willing to return to Mizoram, and those who are not. Brus of Mizoram fled to North Tripura due of communal tension triggered by the murder of a forest official by Bru militants on October 21, 1997. Read less...

*Data till , November 25, 2021

Source:Compiled from news reports and are provisional.

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