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26/11/22 06:48 AM IST

Chin-Kuki-Mizo refugees

In News 
  • The on-going conflict between Bangladeshi security forces and the Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA) triggered an influx of refugees from the Kuki-Chin community to the Indian state of Mizoram.
About KNA 
  • The Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA) is the armed wing of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) – a separatist group that was established in 2008 to create a separate state in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Southern Bangladesh.
  • The KNF claims that all members of the Bawm, Pungkhua, Lushai, Khumi, Mro, and Khyang ethnic groups are part of the greater Kuki-Chin race.
  • Also known as the Bawm Party, this group is having close relationships with rebel groups in Northeast India and Myanmar.
About Issue 
  • The Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) is an ethnic separatist organisation that claims to represent the interests of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo communities living in the area.
  • The KNF emerged around 2008, with the demand of a separate state in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
  • The Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA), the armed wing of the KNF, is fighting soldiers of the Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in the CHT.
  • The KNF claims all members of the Bawm, Pungkhua, Lushai, Khumi, Mro, and Khyang ethnic groups belong to a greater Kuki-Chin race.
  • Deal - The amir of the Jama’atul Ansar, Md Anisur Rahman alias Mahmud and the KNF chief Nathan Bom had “struck a three-year agreement” at the beginning of 2021.
  • As per the deal, the KNF was providing shelter, training and other support to the militants.
  • In return, the militant outfit was giving the KNF Bangladeshi Taka 3 lakh per month and the expenditure for food”.
  • The Zo Reunification Organisation (ZORO) had told that the Bangladesh Army has entered into a secret pact with Myanmar-based Arakan Army to launch joint operations against KNA.
Refugee problem in Mizoram 
  • From Bangladesh - The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is an impoverished hilly, forested area that is found in the Khagrachari, Rangamati, and Bandarban districts of Bangladesh.
  • It borders Mizoram to the east, Tripura to the north, and Myanmar to the south and southeast.
  • A significant portion of the population is tribal, and culturally and ethnically different from the majority Muslim Bangladeshis.
  • The tribal population of the CHT has ethnic links with tribal populations in the adjacent areas of India, mainly in Mizoram.
  • From Mizoram - Mizoram is already hosting about 30,000 refugees who have been fleeing fighting in Myanmar’s Chin state since July-August 2021.
  • A pro-democracy civilian resistance group called the Chin Defence Force has been fighting the forces of the junta ever since the military coup of February 2021.
Source- Indian Express 

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