Mizoram Home Secretary stated that officials have re-identified 26,128 Bru refugees belonging to 4,278 families lodged in six relief camps in North Tripura District of Tripura, reports Eastern Mirror on July 22. He also added that the process of re-identification of the bona fide residents of Mizoram was completed on July 20. In the previous head count conducted in November 2018, 32,876 Brus belonging to 5,407 families were found in the relief camps in North Tripura District. Of them, only 33 families had returned during repatriation in 2018 and 5,374 Bru families were estimated to have been remaining in the relief camps. The first attempt to repatriate Bru’s in 2009 failed and triggered another wave of exodus after the killing of a youth three days before the commencement of the repatriation.