Insurgency / Mizoram

AGARTALA, March 3: In a new twist to the current insurgency problem, the Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) militants, comprising Reang tribals living in Tripura and Mizoram, have turned against Tripuri tribals living in Hailakandi subdivision of Barak valley in Assam. Altogether seven Tripuri tribal families comprising 46 members have recently taken shelter in Gandacherra subdivision of Dhalai district, after being driven away from Durgapur village under Lalghat police station of Hailakandi district. These families are eking out a sub-human living in remote Bhagirath para village of...

HAILAKANDI, March 3: The Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF), a militant outfit of Reang (Bru) communities, has asked the Mizoram government to initiate peace parleys with it by declaring a ceasefire in the state. The BNLF has been demanding the creation of a Bru homeland within the State of Mizoram. The organising secretary of the outfit, S Bru through a press statement also warned that if the authorities concerned fail to respond positively to its demand, the organisation may be forced to carry out subversive activities in and around Mizoram. The BNLF leader further said that the onus of...

AIZAWL, February 25: Assam Rifles authorities in Tripura's Kanchanpur refused to hand over Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) leaders, who escaped from the clutches of National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) and surrendered to the Assam Rifles about a month back, police said. Top Mamit district police officials told PTI over phone that they had been urging the Assam Rifles authorities in Kanchanpur to hand over Surjo Moni and Hmunsiama, president and deputy commander respectively of the BNLF, to the Mizoram police.

AIZAWL, February 20: The repatriation of Bru refugees from Tripura would begin after the activists of National Liberation Front (BNLF) come overground and lay down their arms, Mizoram Home Minister Tawnluia said. The State Government was ready for return of all the refugees, sheltered in Tripura camps, who were bonafide residents of Mizoram but the Bru rebel groups would have to lay down arms and return to normal lives first, an official release quoted Tawnluia as saying so on Friday. Leaders of the Bru Welfare Committee met the Minister on Friday and apprised Tawnluia of the miseries and...

AIZAWL, February 18: It could beat even a Bollywood pot-boiler for its thrilling suspense. Executing the daring plan, which could have risked those who were involved, president of the underground Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) Suryamani Reang and his deputy escaped from deep inside Bangladesh where the National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) was allegedly keeping them hostage since July, 2000. It is still unknown how the two managed to escape from the heavily-guarded NLFT camp, but authoritative sources claimed that the two made good their plan with the help of two sentries of Reang...

AIZAWL, February 10: A Manipur-based insurgent group has threatened all Hmars living in the area bordering Mizoram to vacate their villages by Saturday failing which their houses would be burnt down, a local political party has claimed, reports UNI. The Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) in a press statement, has claimed that Mizos belonging to the Hmar sub-tribe would be forced to lose their home in Manipur following the threat.

AIZAWL, January 17: Attempts made by insurgents from neighbouring States and across the international border to disturb the hard-earned peace have been dealt with effectively by law enforcement agencies of Mizoram, State Governor Ved Prakash Marwah said on Tuesday, reports PTI. Addressing the first sitting of the Assembly session, Marwah congratulated the people of the State for maintaining peace and harmony even in the face of extreme pressures. He said that the State Government had been making efforts to effectively check infiltration and handle exigencies of law and order. "Efforts have...

AIZAWL, August 5: Mizoram Director General of Police (DGP) M. Tumsanga on Friday gave appointments on compassionate ground to the dependents of 17 policemen killed in action, reports PTI. The appointees included wives or next-of-kin of the seven policemen killed by Bru National Liberation Front (BNLF) militants near Malsury in Lunglei district on June 30 and those five policemen killed by Manipur's PREPAK ultras at Mizoram-Manipur border hamlet of Vaitin in 1999. All the 17 new appointees were given jobs according to their educational qualifications in the police department. Addressing the...

AIZAWL, July 20: The Mizoram police on Wednesday said the July 12 raids on refugee camps in Khedacherra area of North Tripura was done following reports that some Bru ultras were taking shelter there, reports PTI. Stating that the raids were carried out after prior information to the Tripura police, the Director General of Police of Mizoram M Tumsanga said at least two of the persons arrested from the camps in Khedacherra were involved in illegal activities like enrolling Bru youths in BNLF and torching of a bus near Saithah on April 15. "Our boys launched massive combing operations along the...

AIZAWL, July 28: The Mizoram government will set up more police posts to prevent Myanmarese rebels from entering the state from across the border, the state home minister, Tawnluia, told the Assembly on Tuesday. He said the state government was aware that Myanmarese Army personnel while chasing the rebels have on occasions illegally entered Mizoram. Tawnluia said the police and Assam Rifles personnel, on receiving reports of such cross-overs, repeatedly pushed back both the Myanmarese armymen and rebels. The Myanmar Army, while in hot pursuit of the rebels fighting against the military junta...