This decision was taken at a joint meeting held in Young Mizo Association (YMA) central office in Aizawl on Friday under the chairmanship of the Central YMA vice president, JH Zoremthanga. The meeting also agreed to trace out the offsprings of those enrolled in 1995 Electoral Rolls in the subsequent revision of Electoral Rolls. The meeting however did not make a decision on sending delegates to meet Central leaders in connection with payment of compensation or rehabilitation grant to Mizo families forcibly pushed out of Sakhan area in Tripura.
Earlier in January this year, as has been reported by Newmai News Network, major NGOs in Mizoram like Central committee of the Young Mizo Association, the Mizoram Upa Pawl (MUP) or Elders Association, the Mizo Hmeichhe Insuihkhawm Pawl (MHIP) or women’s federation, and the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or students’ federation said that 1995 electoral roll intensive revision should be based for determination of bona fide residents of Mizoram for the Bru refugees who migrated to Tripura in 1997.
Meanwhile, the Mizoram Mizoram government has called off the fourth phase of Bru repatriation scheduled on June 7 last to put pressure on the demand to rehabilitate the 80 plus displaced Mizo families in Tripura.
State Home Minister R Lalzirliana, who announced the government's decision at a sports meet closing function here yesterday, said the state government had submitted a memorandum to the Centre to rehabilitate the Mizo families who had been driven out by Brus from Sakhan hill range in Tripura in 1998. Which was supported by NGOs and political parties of the state.
In 1997 when the Bru left Mizoram they had driven out some Mizos in villages of Sakhan Hill Range in Tripura like Sakhan Serhmun, Sakhan Tlangsang, Sakhan Tualsen, Upper Dosda and other nearby Mizos. Some 80 families were ousted from Tripura out of which 46 families were known to have fled to different places in Mizoram; and the rest 31 families scattered to different villages like Behliangchhip, Vanghmun, Tlangsang, Sabual, Hmunpui and Bangla Zion in Tripura . Accordingly, the Sakhan Displaced Mizo Welfare had given written information regarding the problem to the Home Secretary of Mizoram on November 27, 2009.