Fresh wave of Myanmar refugees crosses into Mizoram after armed conflict
Mizoram
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The fresh batch of refugees have started coming since July 2. Gun battle had erupted between the
Chin National Defence Force
and the Chinland Defence Force-Hualngoram over control of Chin state in Myanmar.
A senior official who does not want to be named said that around 3000 to 4000 refugees had come since the fight started on July 2. ' They are being provided with food, water and shelter.'
Refugees are coming to Zokhawthar and Saikhumphai Village bordering Myanmar in Champhai district.
According to a state Home Department official, a total of 33,004 Myanmar nationals, including 12,572 children, are currently sheltered in different camps, government buildings and rented houses in all 11 districts of Mizoram. They took shelter in Mizoram in phases after the military takeover in the conflict-ridden country in February 2021.
Over 2,000 tribals from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeast Bangladesh also took shelter in Mizoram in November 2022 after they fled from their villages in CHT following ethnic troubles in the neighbouring country. Around 7,800 refugees belonging to the
Kuki-Zo community
from Manipur have also taken shelter in several districts of Mizoram after the ethnic violence broke out in the neighbouring state in May last year.
The refugees from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Manipur belong to the Kuki-Zo-Chin-Hmar-Bawm tribal community who also share ethnic, traditional, cultural and linguistic ties with the Mizos of Mizoram.
The union home ministry in a communique to the chief secretaries of Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, and the director general of Assam Rifles on March 10 in 2021 stated that there was a probability of large-scale illegal influx into the Indian territory due to the current internal situation in Myanmar. It had earlier issued an advisory to these states and the security forces to stay alert and take appropriate action to prevent a possible influx into Indian territory.
The union ministry had also said that state governments had no power to grant refugee status to any foreigners.
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