GUWAHATI The Mizoram government has decided against collecting the biometrics and biographical data of ‘refugees’ from Myanmar while its Manipur counterpart has sought more time from the Centre in view of the ongoing Kuki-Meitei conflict to complete the exercise.
Some 40,000 Chin people, fleeing a civil war in Myanmar since the February 2021 military coup, have crossed over to the two northeastern States. More than 35,000 of them are in Mizoram, which also houses about 700 Kuki-Chin people from Bangladesh and some 12,000 Kuki-Zo people from the strife-torn Manipur.
The Chin, Kuki-Chin, Kuki-Zo and the dominant Mizo people of Mizoram belong to the same ethnic stock.
