Agartala : Even as union Home Minister P. Chidambaram was visiting
Mizoram over the Reang refugees repatriation issue, security forces
arrested five Reang tribal youths with arms at a refugee camp in
northern Tripura, police said here Thursday.
"During a special operation, the paramilitary Assam Rifles troopers
arrested five tribal youths from Naising Para refugee camp in north
Tripura Wednesday night," a police spokesman told reporters here.
The police official said two improvised guns and three revolvers were
recovered from the tribal youths, aged between 22 and 28 years, who
were inmates of the refugee camp.
Later, the Assam Rifles troopers handed them over to police.
Following ethnic tensions after the killing of a Mizo forest official
in Mizoram, over 41,000 Reang tribal refugees - locally called Bru -
had taken shelter in six camps in north Tripura's Kanchanpur
sub-division in October 1997.
The Mizoram government occasionally raised allegations that a section
of Reang refugees have become involved in terrorism and were trying to
create violence in Mizoram, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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