BNLF scales down autonomous council demand

AGARTALA, April 30 ? The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), an outfit of Mizoram has scaled down their demand for autonomous district council to the regional council to facilitate signing of a peace accord with the Mizoram government. The president of the BNLF Thang Masha in a memorandum to Mizoram government recently said for an early solution of problems through a peace accord it has scaled down the demand to regional council for the Bru community which can be formed in the western part of the Mamit district. Masha has put forward 12 point charter of demands to the State government including steps to repatriate 32,000 Reang refugees sheltered in six evacuee camps in Kanchanpur subdivision of North Tripura district and create at least three seats in Mizoram Assembly for Bru community.