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A Bru tribal woman enjoys a “Maktu”, a traditional smoking pipe at the Naisingpara Bru refugee Relief camp in Tripura state, India, 16 June 2014. The repatriation of the Mizoram Bru refugees will be carried out on 17 June 2014 from six Bru refugee camps who are now lodging in transit camps in neighbouring Tripura state, since they fled Mizoram in 1997 following ethnic violence. A total of 494 Bru families have been verified and they are confirmed as the genuine residents of Mizoram state. They would also be provided rice free of cost for one year. The people of the Bru community were displaced from Mizoram following ethnic conflicts with the Mizos in 1997 and since then they were sheltered in six camps at Kanchanpur in North Tripura district of Tripura state. (Photo by EPA/STR)
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