Bangladesh- Mizoram Border

Bangladesh- Mizoram Border

Subject: Geography

Topic: Mapping

Context: More than 200 people belonging to the Kuki-Chin-Mizo community from Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have entered Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district due to an armed conflict between the neighbouring country’s Army and an ethnic armed group and are being referred to as “officially displaced persons” as per the State Government records.

Content:

• Lawngtlai is near the trijunction of India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh in south Mizoram.
• Bandarban and Rangamati in the CHT are the areas which had unrest.

Background:

• Bangladesh’s CHT is home to a dozen Buddhist and Christian ethnic groups collectively known as the Jumma people.
• The emergence of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), the armed wing of the Kuki-Chin National Army, (formed to carve out an autonomous state) and its alleged linkages with an Islamist group has been simmering the unrest for the past several decades along with other factors.