Mizoram to provide aid to Chin-Kuki tribals Bangladeshi migrants

Mizoram government will provide similar food, relief, and shelter to the 270 tribals belonging to Chin-Kuki community, who have fled to the northeastern state from Bangladesh after the reported crackdown of the security forces against the militant outfit, officials said on Wednesday.

Around 272 Chin-Kuki tribals, including women and children took shelter in southern Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district on Sunday evening from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeast Bangladesh after the reported anti-insurgency operation by the Bangladesh Army’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) against insurgent group Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA).

The KNA, also known as Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), is a militant outfit, demanding sovereignty for the tribals.