Home Minister K Sapdanga said the assembly on Monday that the Mizoram government will keep helping the more than 42,000 refugees from Manipur, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. In response to a query, he claimed that it was challenging to keep track of the number of people applying for asylum every day because they were coming from Manipur, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.There are 9,248 persons from Manipur, 32,161 from Myanmar, and 1,167 from Bangladesh in the state, according to the most recent Home Department data, he added. In response to a query by MNF MLA K Laldawngliana, Sapdanga stated, “We will continue to provide relief to asylum seekers from Myanmar and Bangladesh, and internally displaced people from Manipur on humanitarian grounds as much as we can.” In order to support the people of Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Manipur, he added, the Centre gave the former Mizo National Front (MNF) administration Rs 3 crore. The state administration was managing the inflow of migrants with its existing resources, according to Chief Minister Lalduhoma’s statement last week.
Following the military junta’s takeover of power in February 2021, people from Myanmar began to migrate to the state. In November 2022, Bangladeshis fled to Mizoram after that nation’s army launched an operation against an ethnic rebel organization operating in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Following the start of ethnic conflict in the neighboring state in May of last year, the Kuki-Zo people from Manipur sought safety in Mizoram.
Mizos are ethnically related to the Bawm population of Bangladesh, the Kuki-Zo people of Manipur, and the Chin people of Myanmar.
