Aizawl : The Central Committee of the Younger Mizo Affiliation or Central YMA (CYMA) will manage a site-in-protest on Monday to increase solidarity with the Kuki-Chin (Mizo) refugees who fled their properties in Bangladesh attributable to armed battle.
The occasion will probably be held in entrance of Raj Bhavan right here, a CYMA chief stated.
The aim of the proposed demonstration is to increase solidarity and acknowledge the difficulties confronted by ethnic Kuki-Chin refugees, CYMA secretary common Professor Lalnuntluanga stated.
Greater than 328 individuals from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (HTC) of Bangladesh have taken refuge in southern Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district since fleeing their villages in November, in keeping with officers.
Not too long ago, an aged man allegedly starved to demise in a forest on the Bangladesh-India border.
The deceased together with different refugees have been tenting within the forest close to the Mizoram border with out sufficient meals after they have been allegedly pushed out by the Border Safety Drive (BSF) from a border village, which guards the Indo-Bangladesh border.
CYMA has already expressed remorse for the incident and hoped that such incidents is not going to occur sooner or later.
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A neighborhood chief additionally stated that many Bangladeshi refugees at the moment are caught within the forests as a result of they can not cross the border.
The refugees fled their properties following armed battle between the Bangladesh Military and the Kuki-Chin Nationwide Military (KNA), an ethnic rebel group demanding a separate state for the Kuki-Chin neighborhood in Bangladesh.
Mizoram shares a 318 km lengthy worldwide border with Bangladesh.
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