AGARTALA, June 4 (TIWN): Following the violent communual clashes among Bengali locals and Bru settlers on May 15 at Kanchanpur,North Tripura, a Home Ministry Official Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary, in-charge of Northeast in Home Ministry has arrived in state and visiting Kanchanpur refugee camp on Saturday to take stock of ground situation and pursue two decades old Bru refugee repatriation to Mizoram with Tripura and Mizoram Govt officials. Bru refugees burnt and damaged atleast 26 local’s homes at Kanchanpur on May 15 causing flare-up of communual riot in Kanchanpur Hilles. Tripura Govt. reportedly after the incident, asked the Central govt. and Mizoram Govt. to take initiatives for Brus repatriation as it causing internal clashes. However, after 20 days of the clash, the MHA Northeast India Division Joint Secretary arrived in Tripura and on Saturday Tripura, Mizoram Govt officials to hold meetings at Bru refugee camps on Saturday, said North Tripura DM Dr. Sandeep Mahatme while talking to TIWN on Saturday morning. Bru repatriation needs urgent solution as many Bru youths are forming Terrorist groups, and already two of the chief Bru refugee terrorist leaders are in Jail custody. Police recovered from them the blue print of their further plans.

A meeting on Saturday scheduled at 12.30 pm between North DM Sandeep Mahatme and Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary in Northeast India Division of MHA, confirmed DM North Sandeep Mahatme.

Central and State Govt officials are also scheduled to visit Kanchanpur Bru refugee camp.

It can be said that earlier also central govt. tried to repatriate the Brus from Tripura, but due to lack of co-operation from the Mizo Govt. and Tripura Govt. the issue was lingering, which resulted in May 15’s incident.

It can be said that once the repartition of Brus  are done, the problem of Kanchapur will be diminished. But no one knows when as over 19 years already passed as Brus arrived Tripura in 1997.

The recent arson among Bru and Bengalies was followed suicide by a tribal man living in a refugee camp at Kanchanpur, 175 km north from Agartala, after he was allegedly beaten up by locals. Bhriguram Reang, 36, allegedly committed suicide, after he was beaten up by local Bengali people who accused him of catching fish from a pond without seeking permission from the owner. 

Bengali -Bru communual clash disturbing peace in Kachanpur, also costing Tripura Govt crores of rupees damage to maintain law & order situation.

After this violence, de-sheltered local Bengalis from homes, when the Bengali people had taken shelter in BBI school -Brus snached away all the cattles from the households. Govt. however, assured to give Bengalees back new cattles.

It’s worthy to mention here the refugees, (Reangs) who fled Mizoram in the wake of inter-community violence and are now housed in refugee camps in Tripura, heading towards uncertain future.

Although Tripura Government claimed for spending Rs.2 crores on relief work, but the situation at there are unchanged. The refugee children across North Tripura are victim of  barbaric society, where no education, no healthy environment is provided to the children for the sake of their future.

About 31,300 Reang tribals, who call themselves "Bru", have been living in seven makeshift camps in northern Tripura's Kanchanpur areas adjoining Mizoram for the past 19 years. They had fled after an ethnic violence in Mizoram following the killing of a Mizo forest officer at the Dampa Tiger Reserve.