The Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF), the umbrella organisation Bru refugees has demanded that all “pending issues” should be settled before the latest phase of repatriation slated for October, reports Assam Tribune on June 2. According to MBDPF, during the last identification conducted in 2016, Mizoram had identified 32,876 Bru people belonging to 5,407 families as bona fide residents of Mizoram. In the re-identification process in 2018, only 2,753 people belonging to 423 families expressed their willingness to return to Mizoram. MBDPF General Secretary Bruno Msha stated that ‘’ Bru people want to settle in a contiguous area in Mizoram for their own safety, integrity, unity, preservation of culture, language and identity.” He also demanded that the rehabilitation centres be located in a contiguous area and alleged that currently, the centres are scattered.