GUWAHATI
The Mizoram government will not collect the biometric details of refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh in the State, Chief Minister Lalduhoma told the Assembly on February 29.
According to Mizoram’s Home Department, 32,221 people displaced by the civil war in Myanmar and 1,167 others fleeing alleged ethnic persecution in Bangladesh have taken refuge in the State since February 2021. Mizoram is also housing some 9,000 internally displaced people, mostly from strife-torn Manipur.