Refugees threaten to loot godowns as government stops ration for Brus

GUWAHATI: Bru organisations threatened to loot godowns saying "the spectre of starvation is looming large over them". The Centre has not supplied ration and cash dole to Bru refugees living in refugee camps for October.

"...there will be numbers of casualty due to starvation in next few days as it is already 24 days that the rations and cash-dole has been stopped. The hungry and desperate inmates... do not have any alternative option but to block the main road, looting of Government Godowns etc for their survival," Bru organisations wrote to the North Tripura district magistrate.

Democratic Movement (MBIDM) and Bru Tribal Development Society (SIDS) stated that the decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs headed by Dr AP Maheshwari, Special Secretary Internal Security to stop the relief facilities is unconstitutional and Violation of human rights because the repatriation process is acting from October 3 to November 30, 2019.