Thousands of Brus were lodged in the six relief camps since the later part of 1997 after Lalzawmliana, a forest guard of the state Environment and Forest department was gunned down by Bru militants near the Mizoram-Tripura border Persang hamlet inside the Dampa Tiger Reserve on October 21, 1997.
State election department officials admitted that a number of Bru voters enrolled in the relief camps might have returned to Mizoram during the repatriation process which commenced from 2010 till date.
