Deputy Commissioner of Mamit district in Mizoram bordering Tripura, Lalbiaksangi, who is heading a team of 30 officials, told PTI over phone from Kaskau camp that the identification process was undertaken peacefully.
Brus, who were enrolled in the 1995 Mizoram voters' lists and their descendants were accepted as bona fide residents of the state, she said.
Around 500 families were lodged in the Kaskau relief camp and the task became difficult as the Tripura government did not have any proper record of those lodged in the six relief camps and deaths and births were also not registered, she added.
As per the schedule of the Road Map-V for Bru Repatriation, the physical repatriation was to commence from November 30.
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Thousand of Bru left Mizoram and migrated to Tripura en-masse after Bru militants gunned down a forest guard near Persang hamlet inside the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura border Dampa Tiger Reserve on October 21, 1997.
The efforts to repatriate the rest of the community in the relief camps during June one to September four last year was unsuccessful as not a single Bru came forward for identification before the Mizoram officials in the relief camps.
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