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Issues surrounding the rehabilitation of ethnic Brus in Tripura are unlikely to be settled anytime soon, as yet again the resettlement process faced resistance from two local ethnic groups in the state. The situation took a violent turn on Saturday, when a clash erupted between the protesters and security forces, during a blockade of national highway (NH) 08 in Panisagar sub-division, following which two persons died, while several left injured. The protests were against rehabilitation of the Bru displaced people in the Kanchanpur sub-division of Tripura North district. The agitators of Nagarik Suraksha Mancha and Mizo Convention jointly formed a forum named ‘Joint Movement Committee’ (JMC) that has been protesting against the state government’s rehabilitation plan, fearing that they might lose their ‘ancestral land’ to Bru migrants. Police informed that on November 21, 2020, as part of the extensive agitation, the forum blocked NH 08 which connects Tripura with Assam and the rest of the country at Chamtila under Panisagar sub-division, which is around 55 kilometer from Kanchanpur sub-division. During the protest, the agitators purportedly turned violent and tried to snatch weapons from security personnel, during which the personnel charged lathis and opened blank fire, and then fired at the uproarious mob on the order of the authority. During police firing, Srikanta Das (46), a carpenter who joined the road blockade, died on the spot with a bullet injuries. According to the police, at least 32 others including 18 protesters and 14 police and fire service personnel, sustained injuries. However, one 30-year old Biswajit Debbarma, a fireman who was brutally lashed with lathis by the angry mob, had sustained severe head injuries and multiple traumas during the assault. He later succumbed to his injuries at GB Pant Hospital in Agartala on Saturday late night. Soon after the incident, state law minister Ratan Lal Nath ordered a magisterial inquiry on the incident to be conducted by the North district magistrate Nagesh Kumar B. The report of the investigation has to be submitted in ‘within one month’. The local administration has imposed section 144 under Criminal Code Procedure in the sub-divisions. The Wire 24 November, 2020 #bru #tripura #northeast ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWdLy92nnI