06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Displaced people in Mizoram and Tripura ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19796]

"More than 1,000 Hmar refugees, one of the numerous tribes that belonged to the Chin-Kuku-Mizo tribe, were reportedly displaced in and around Mizoram, some of them from Manipur.   In January 2005 the Supreme Court ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs, the election commission, and the governments of Mizoram and Tripura to resettle approximately 40,000 displaced Reangs and add them to the electoral rolls. No further action had taken place by the end of the year.   The BNLF and Mizoram government agreed on a $6.3 million (Rs 277.9 million) financial package and paved the way for the return of Reang IDPs in North Tripura. However, the return was yet unimplemented. The return of Bru refugees was not implemented because civil society groups like the Young Mizo Association and the Mizo Students' Union objected with the argument that these Brus were not all originally from Mizoram. No decision was reached at the end of the year.  "

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19.08.2004 - Source: BBC News

Manipur and Mizoram: a team of Israeli rabbis is due to rule on whether thousands of Indians, who say they are members of Benei Menashe tribe or one of the others lost tribes of Israel, can settle there ("India's 'lost Jews' wait in hope") [#24858],  [ID 7529]

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