त्रिपुरा में ब्रू राहत शिविरों में मृतकों की संख्या बढ़कर छह हुई

Published : Nov 4, 2019, 10:22 PM IST

उत्तरी त्रिपुरा जिले के ब्रू राहत शिविरों में भूख से मरने वालों की संख्या छह हो गई है. 'मिजोरम ब्रू डिस्लेस्ड पीपुल्स फोरम' ने आरोप लगाया है कि 'मुफ्त राशन और नकद सहायता' बंद किए जाने के बाद भुखमरी से लोगों की मौतें हो रही हैं.

त्रिपुरा में ब्रू राहत शिविरों में मृतकों की संख्या बढ़कर छह हुई

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आइजोल/ अगरतला : त्रिपुरा में रह रहे ब्रू शरणार्थियों के एक ग्रुप ने दावा किया है कि सोमवार को चार महीने की एक बच्ची की मौत के साथ ही उत्तरी त्रिपुरा जिले के ब्रू राहत शिविरों में भूख से मरने वालों की संख्या बढ़कर छह हो गयी है जबकि तीन अन्य को अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया गया है.

ब्रू शरणार्थी लोगों ने गुरुवार से ही मिजोरम की सीमा से लगने वाले एक इलाके में नाकेबंदी जारी रखी है. उनकी मांग है कि मुफ्त राशन और नकद सहायता बहाल की जाए.

'मिजोरम ब्रू डिस्लेस्ड पीपुल्स फोरम' ने आरोप लगाया कि केंद्र द्वारा पिछले महीने से राहत शिविरों के लोगों के लिए 'मुफ्त राशन और नकद सहायता' बंद किए जाने के बाद 'भुखमरी' से लोगों की मौत हुई है.

फोरम के महासचिव, ब्रूनो मशा ने जानकारी देते हुए कहा कि सोमवार सुबह हमसापारा राहत शिविर में चार महीने की एक बच्ची की मौत हो गई. उन्होंने कहा कि तीन लोगों को अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया गया है.

पढ़ें - बेरोजगारी और भुखमरी में जी रहे परिवार ने की 'इच्छामृत्यु' की मांग

फिलहाल त्रिपुरा सरकार के अधिकारियों ने कहा कि राहत शिविरों में अब तक चार ब्रू विस्थापितों की मौत हुई है और वहां चिकित्सीय टीमें भेजी गयी हैं.

अधिकारियों ने यह भी कहा कि राशन व नकद सहायता फिर से बहाल नहीं की जाएगी क्योंकि गृह मंत्रालय ने ऐसा आदेश दे रखा है.

उधर कंचनपुर में ड्यूटी पर तैनात मिजोरम के अधिकारियों ने कहा कि आंदोलनकारी ब्रू आवश्यक वस्तुओं को ले जा रहे ट्रकों को नहीं रोक रहे थे. वे मिजोरम के अधिकारियों को रोकने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं, जो ब्रू परिवारों को वापस लाने के लिए आए हैं.

पढ़ें - बेरोजगारी और भुखमरी में जी रहे परिवार ने की 'इच्छामृत्यु' की मांग

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Starvation claimed 6 lives, say Bru refugees; road blockade on
(Eds: with details, government versions)
Aizawl/Agartala, Nov 4 (PTI) An organisation of Bru
refugees living in Tripura claimed that a four-month-old baby
died in a relief camp on Monday taking the total number of
people losing their lives "because of starvation" to six and
three other inmates have been hospitalised.
The displaced people continued with their road
blockade for the fifth day demanding resumption of free ration
and cash-dole to them, which the Centre has stopped since
October following commencement of the repatriation of the
refugees to their homeland Mizoram.
Tripura government officials, however, said four Bru
inmates of the relief camps have died so far and medical teams
have been sent there.
They also said free rations and cash-dole will not be
resumed as per the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
"Six people died and three persons were hospitalised
due to deprivation of free ration and cash-dole by the Centre
from October due to the ongoing repatriation scheduled to be
concluded on November 30," Mizoram Bru Displaced People's
Forum (MBDPF) said.
MBDPF general secretary Bruno Msha told PTI over
phone that a four-month-old girl died in Hamsapara relief camp
on Monday morning.
Three persons including an elderly man and a child of
Naisingpara camp died of starvation on Sunday, Msha claimed.
Two inmates of Naisingpara had died on Thursday.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Kanchanpur
Abhedananda Baidya said four refugees had died since Thursday.
The SDM had said on Saturday that an enquiry was
being conducted to ascertain the cause of death of the two
inmates of Naisingpara relief camp on Thursday.
"Two medical teams have already reached refugee camps
to check the health condition of the refugees, especially the
children," Baidya said.
Tripura Additional Chief Secretary Kumar Alok also
went to Naisingpara and held a meeting with refugee leaders to
discuss the death of the refugees and the road blockade.
Road communication from Ananda Bazar to Kanchapur via
Dasda has collapsed due to the blockade, an official said.
Mizoram officials on duty at Kanchanpur said the
agitating Brus were not blocking the road targeting trucks
carrying essential goods but trying to stop Mizoram officials
who are there repatriate the Bru families.
In the meeting, Alok urged the Bru leaders to withdraw
the blockade which has affected the people of Dasda, Ananda
Bazar and its adjacent areas, at the earliest.
"As per an agreement, those who repatriate to Mizoram
within the next three days will get Rs 25,000 extra. There is
no question of resuming free ration to the refugees as
directed by the MHA," Baidya said, quoting Alok.
The meeting was attended by North Tripura District
Magistrate Raval H Kumar, Superintendent of Police Bhanu Pada
Chakraborty and Chief Medical Officer Dr Jagadish Nama.
Bru leaders neither accepted nor rejected the offer of
the additional chief secretary who acted as an emissary of the
MHA, a source said.
Each adult in the relief camps used to get Rs 2.67 and
a minor Rs 1.33 a day as cash-dole while the quantity of rice
was 450 gm for an adult per day and 225 gm for a minor per day
as free ration.
The Centre has not supplied ration and cash dole to
the 35,000 odd refugees for October while the repatriation
process of the displaced Bru people is still on.
The Centre had made it clear that the relief camps of
Bru refugees in Tripura would be closed down and the displaced
persons must be repatriated to Mizoram during the ongoing
exercise, Special Secretary (internal security), Ministry of
Home Affairs, A P Maheshwari, had said on October 16.
Over 4,000 Bru displaced families, lodged in the
relief camps at Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of
North Tripura district, are scheduled to return to
neighbouring Mizoram from where they had fled since 1997
following ethnic clashes.
This ninth round of Bru repatriation has been termed
as the "final" one by the government.
The Bru community, also called Reangs, is among the 21
scheduled tribes in the country. They are scattered across
Assam, Mizoram and Tripura.
During the eighth round of repatriation, the Ministry
of Home Affairs had warned that the relief camps would be
closed down from October one 2018 and free ration and money
doled to the displaced families would be discontinued.
However, that phase did not bear much fruit.
While the MHA did stop the free ration and cash dole
from October one, 2018, the Centre restarted it apparently due
to political reasons as Mizoram assembly election was nearing.
The Centre has approved Rs 350 crore for the ninth
phase of repatriation and the amount covers transportation and
rehabilitation package expenses, which include Rs 5,000 per
month for each resettled Bru family in Mizoram and free ration
for them for two years.
Only around 1,681 families have returned to Mizoram
since 2010 and were resettled in Mamit, Kolasib and Lunglei
districts till the eighth round of repatriation.
The vexed Bru problem started when the Bru people,
spearheaded by an organisation, Bru National Union, demanded a
separate autonomous district council by carving out areas of
western Mizoram in September, 1997.
The situation was aggravated by the murder of a forest
guard in the Dampa Tiger Reserve in western Mizoram by Bru
National Liberation Front insurgents on October 21, 1997.
The first attempt to repatriate the Brus from Tripura
from November 16, 2009 not only fizzled out due to the murder
of a Mizo youth at Bungthuam village on November 13, 2009, but
also triggered another wave of exodus. PTI HCV COR
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