Rise in number of displaced people from Myanmar taking shelter in Mizoram, Manipur
The Hindu
People from neighbouring country continue to cross porous border
The number of displaced people from Myanmar taking shelter in six districts in Mizoram and Chandel and Churachandpur districts in Manipur is increasing. Official say over 58,000 displaced people, including 18 lawmakers representing the National League for Democracy, had crossed the 908-km-long Myanmar border along Manipur and Mizoram after the February coup. The UN Refugee Agency, in a report, said that the actual number of the displaced could be higher since many were unrecorded. Pachuau Lalmalsuma, a doctor who is tackling the COVID-19 infection in Mizoram, said, “Several migrants tested in Aizawl, the State capital, were found to be COVID-19 positive”. A fraction of the displaced persons had returned home. But then people are fleeing since there had been occasional firing in some areas, including Tamu town, in Myanmar. Some pro-democracy activists died or sustained life-changing injuries.
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