Insurgency / Mizoram

AIZAWL, March 16 ? Mizoram government has no intention to create a separate autonomous district council for the Brus/Reangs by carving out some parts of the State, Home Minister Tawnluia told the State Assembly here Friday, reports PTI. In a written reply to questions from Zakhu Hlychho of the Congress and J Lalthangliana of the Mizoram People?s Conference, Tawnluia said that delegation of the State governemnt and the Brus National Liberation Front (BNLF) had held four rounds of talks and would continue to have dialogue to reach a solution to the Bru problem. He informed the State...

AIZAWL, March 3 ? Talks between Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) were held Friday in ?cordial atmosphere? with both sides expressing wish for reaching an agreement on contentious issues like Bru repartriation, reports PTI. State Chief Secretary HV Lalringa said though both sides were for early resumption of talks, the dates for the rounds could be fixed on April 10, after the assembly session was over. While Lalringa led the government delegation, the four-member BNLF team was led by its self-styled home secretary Zaithanga Apeto. Two representatives of the Bru...

AIZAWL, Feb 1 — The third round of talks between the Mizoram government and the Bru National Liberation Front on repatriation of Bru refugees lodged in camps in Tripura and other issues, schedule for Thursday, have been postponed as BNLF representatives failed to turn up, reports PTI. Officials in the state home department said that the next date would be decided by the BNLF and conveyed to the state government. The last round of talks was held in November. The parleys between the two parties assumed added significance after the Mizoram government linked repatriation of the Bru refugees in...

AGARTALA, Jan 18 — The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), a Mizoram-based outfit has said all its members would surrender to the Mizoram Government if the later concedes their demands through peaceful negotiations. Two rounds of peace talks have been held with the government and we are optimistic that it would bear fruits, A Joseph, asvisor of BNLF told PTI here. ‘All the members would surrender if the government concedes our demands,’ he said. Joseph denied a press report that BNLF has recently suffered a split on the issue of surrender. The BNLF’s main demands include rehabilitation of...

AIZAWL, April 23: Manipur's Hmar People's Convention Democrats (HPC-D) militants said they had kidnapped four persons from Mizoram to "pressurise the state government on their demand for a separate autonomous district council inside Mizoram", reports PTI. Meanwhile, State Home Minister Tawnluia yesterday said the Government had not received any demand political or otherwise from the outfit and had also not received any appeal for talks. A man who claimed to be self-styled commander of HPC-D told a local daily,

AIZAWL, April 18: Recent abduction of four people by Manipur's Hmar People's Convention - Democrats (HPC-D) on Tuesday rocked Mizoram Assembly as Opposition members accused the state government of being unable to protect the border areas, reports PTI. Irate members, during a discussion of budgetary demands of the Home ministry, said that the state government had "tied" the hands of the State police to effectively combat the rebels who operated from across the borders. R Lalzirliana of Congress said that the HPC-D militants had kidnapped more than ten people in three separate incidents during...

AGARTALA, March 17: The Mizoram government's bid to link the repatriation of more than 31,000 Reang tribal refugees stranded in six North Tripura camps over the past three-and-a-half years to the issue of Bru militancy has dimmed the prospect of an early repatriation of refugees. Mizoram government's latest stand was made clear at a tripartite meeting held in Delhi between the chief secretaries of Mizoram, Tripura and senior officials of the Union home ministry. Mizoram chief secretary H.V. Lalringa said unless the Bru National Liberation Front stopped terrorist activities in Mizoram...

AIZAWL, March 16: The Mizoram government has said the Bru insurgent outfit must stop its activities and the Centre should provide adequate funds before repatriation of Bru refugees from Tripura, reports PTI. State Home department sources said here on Friday, Mizoram Chief Secretary H V Lalringa told a high-level meeting in New Delhi that the State government cannot begin the repatriation process as it will mean bringing an armed insurgent group in the State. Top officials of Union Home ministry and the Chief Secretary of Tripura, took part in Thursday's meeting on Bru repatriation issue...

AIZAWL, March 14: Mizoram government is yet to give its reply to the offer for peace dialogue by the Bru National Front (BNLF), according to a top government officials, reports PTI. The officials who preferred to remain anonymous told PTI that the BNLF general secretary Solomon Prophul had written a letter to the state's Home Minister Tawnluia offering peace dialogue with the participation of officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and representatives of the Bru Welfare Association of Mizoram. The BNLF also conditions for talks saying the venue should be outside Mizoram, either at Kolkata...

AIZAWL, March 13: Mizoram Government, on March 12 said that it was ready for any peace efforts to ensure that the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) shun the path of violence and come over-ground even as the BNLF sets a series of conditions for peaceful dialogue. State Home Minister Tawnluia told PTI here that the government wanted that all the BNLF cadres should bid farewell to arms and lead normal lives before the commencement of repatriation process of Bru refugees from Tripura. "Any arrangement to bring all the BNLF militants overground is welcomed including a well organised dialogue'...