Mizo youth group demand ‘Set up relief camps for Myanmar refugees in a ‘compact’ area’

An influential youth organisation in Mizoram has asked the State government to place more than 30,000 “scattered” refugees from adjoining Myanmar in a “compact” area so they could live together.

These refugees had fled their hearth and home in Myanmar’s Chin State in the wake of the coup by the Myanmar military last year. After they had entered Mizoram, the locals sheltered them in community halls, public halls, school buildings etc.

“The present arrangement, wherein they have been sheltered across villages and districts, might create a problem in the future,” the YMA said without elaborating.