Mizoram: 50 Myanmarese refugees increase tally to 34,332
Myanmar to Mizoram, the number of those taking shelter has increased to 34,332. A Mizoram government official said people are entering Mizoram to evade being recruited in the Arakan Army (AA) militant group. Around 50 Myanmarese, including 10 women, fled Paletwa in the neighbouring country’s Chin region and entered Hruitezawl village in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district during the past few days to evade recruitment in the Arakan Army (AA) militant group, the largest armed ethnic outfit in Myanmar, which is recruiting people from the Chin region to intensify their battle against the Army.
People from Myanmar are taking shelter across the 11 districts in phases after the military junta seized power in the neighboring country on February 1, 2021.
The Kuki-Zomi-Chin tribes in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Manipur share ethnic ties, and cultural and linguistic similarities with the Mizo people.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah in an election rally in Manipur on April 15 said, “The Modi government ended the Free Movement Regime to thwart the conspiracy to change the demography of Manipur. Free movement regime with Myanmar was used for smuggling and narcotics, so we decided to scrap it. We are doing fencing along the border.”
Shah recently announced the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Indo-Myanmar border in order to ensure the internal security of the country and to maintain the demographic structure of northeastern states bordering Myanmar.
Chief minister N Biren Singh informed the assembly recently that out
