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Resolving the problem of the Bru people

Author: Governor Swaraj
Publication: Hindu Vivek Kendra
Date: January 18, 2020
URL:    http://www.hvk.org/2020/0120/40.html

Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
I am extremely happy with the signing of a tripartite agreement to resolve the Bru people who shuttled between Mizoram and Tripura. The media describes this as settlement of 23 year old problem. In my view this is a settlement of 125 year old problem.
11:34 AM - 16 Jan 2020
URL:      https://twitter.com/governorswaraj/status/1217892982621270017?s=09

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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
Who are the Bru people. In Mizoram they are called Reangs. But privately, Mizos call them ‘Tuikuks’, which is a derogatory term. I will call them Brus. That’s how they wish to be addressed. Brus are traditionally Hindus. They are inhabit area along Tripura -Mizoram border.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
In Mizoram Brus live along the border, right up to Siaha district. There is a good number of Brus along the border inside Bangladesh also. Since the time of their arrival, missionaries are doing their best to convert them to Christianity. After partition there was large scale
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persecution of Hindu and Buddhists tribes in the Chittagong Hill of East Pakistan and then Bangladesh. They built large hydro dams like Kaptai dams inundating their lands. On the Indian side, many Brus and Chakmas lived in Dampa area along the Mizoram -Tripura border.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
The tribals in forest area can survive only on the forest, land and cattle. Their area was declared a wildlife sanctuary. Once it is so declared, the tribals cannot freely enter, cultivate, live or collect even firewood. There are no Government schools. So children must go to
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missionary schools. So conversion was the only option. Otherwise children will remain illiterate. There is no firewood and no kerosene. How do you survive without basic amenities of earning and survival ? So choice was to either convert or perish.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
Pakistan/Bangladesh would provide sanctuary to our underground groups only if they go after Hindu/Buddhist tribes. MNF had their tactical headquarters in Dampa area. SS Col.Rawliana was the tactical commander in Dampa area.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
In Mizoram Chakmas and Brus are just not acceptable. They do not like to see them. But look at the Indian perspective, these people can survive in the planes,forests land rivers. We should have recruited them in our forces. We should use them as our first line of defence.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
Unfortunately, our commanders could not appreciate this. The recruitment is done only in the capitals. That is nearly a weeks journey. How do they come to a city that is hostile to them. Where do they live ? Then recruitment officers would ask for a particular
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certificate. It will take them ten days to just commute to their place and back. The recruitment Sab will go back and report that not enough people were ready to join forces. So no representation in services either. Some Brus shifted to Hailakandi in Assam.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
They have progressed a little. This agreement is a good document. They will be settled in Tripura. There is a rehabilitation package of Rs.4 lacs, a residential plot of 40x30 Sq ft., assistance to build their house and ration for two years.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, younare doing too many good things. It is a country that God ran all these years. I have dreamt of these measures for 40 years. I had never imagined that somebody will do them.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
Just one request, please do special recruit of young boys and girls from the border villages of India-Bangladesh and Myanmar. Nobody will defend their villages the way they will. As a Governor, I went begging for this and was nothing was done. All Chakma /Bru will vouch for this.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
Last but not the least We should remember RSS workers who were abducted and killed in Tripura. It is their blood that has changed the lives of the tribals in northeast. Thanks to Banwasi Kalyan Ashram and their volunteers who gave their precious lives to this mission.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
As an MP I used to raise the issue of abduction of RSS workers in Tripura. But no one listened.
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Governor Swaraj @governorswaraj
At that time, two of them were abducted for over two years. I used ask the Government, if they were dead or alive ? No one tried to reach the abductors. Nobody knew if they were dead. No one tried to locate even their dead bodies.
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