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09/01/23 09:08 AM IST

Kuki-Chin Refugees Issue

In News
  • As another round of refugee crisis brews on the Mizoram-Bangladesh border, several members of the Kuki-Chin community were “pushed back” by the Border Security Force (BSF).
Kuki-Chin
  • The Chins of Myanmar, the Mizos of Mizoram and the Kukis of Bangladesh are of the same ancestry and belong to the Kuki ethnic group native to the Mizo hills.
  • They are collectively called the Zo people.
  • The Kuki Chin people are settled in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the only extensive hill area in Bangladesh that lies in the southeastern part of the country.
  • It borders Myanmar on the southeast, Tripura on the north, Mizoram on the east and the Chittagong district in the west.
Demands of Kuki-Chin
  • The roots of Kuki militancy lie in conflicts of ethnic identity.
  • First was the demand for self-determination solely for groups belonging to their ethnic fabric, meaning the dream to form a Kukiland.
  • The second reason for insurgency lies in the inter-community conflicts between the Kukis and the Nagas in Manipur.
  • The Kuki-Naga conflict was started over securing identity and land as some Kuki-inhabited areas coincided with Naga-inhabited areas.
  • Wanting to dominate trade and cultural activities in those areas the two communities often engaged in violent standoffs, with villages being torched, civilians killed and so on.
Response by India
  • Members of the Kuki-Chin community from Bangladesh who have entered Mizoram are being considered “officially displaced persons” in State government records because India does not have a law on refugees.
  • India has not signed the United Nations Refugee Convention, 1951 and its 1967 Protocol. Thus India does not recognise refugees, and undocumented migrants could be prosecuted for violating the Foreigners Act of 1946.
  • The members of the community who seek to take shelter in the Indian state of Mizoram have been sent back by the BSF personnel as they have no instructions to let the refugees enter India.
  • Further, the BSF personnel have showcased humanity by distributing food and extending medical assistance to the refugee group.
Source- Indian Express

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