BRU (Ethnicity)

The bru or reang are a town of the Indian subcontine.

<p They claim to be the second tripura ethnicity. In Mizoram, where they are called tweet, they were just a thousand in 1961 and ten thousand in 1971, but then the emigration from tripure increased and now they claim to be 85,000, although manipuri authorities reduce their number to 35,000.

The Reang alleged the non -recognition of their culture in Mizoram and three illustrated young people - Sawibunga, a graduate from the Nehu, Lalrinthangga, a student, and Ramawia, a primary school teacher - decided to form the reang peoples union (RPU) in September 1989, formulating certain demands to the Mizoram government (radio programs, reserve some public jobs, and appointment of a reang in the Legislative Assembly). When Mizoram became the territory of La Unión, two Leaders Reang, Zoduha and Lalnunzira were appointed legislators. The RPU was renamed socio-cultural bru Association (BSCA) in December 1989, and requested the inclusion of the reang in the list of tribal minorities. The BSCA created a political platform in June 1990, the Reang Democratic Convention (RDC), with Sawibunga as president, advocating the promotion and preservation of the BRU culture, customs, language and economic development. In alliance with reang organizations of Tripura, the national denomination that later became Bru was unified. The RDC later became the Reang Democratic Party. In 1992 in the district elections, two Reang leaders participated, and one of them, Chandra Mohan, was chosen. As his alliance to Congress was not beneficial, in 1993 they allied the Chakmas, with which they joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, but the candidates of these ethnic groups in the BJP were not chosen. The Mizoram authorities accused the chakmas of emigrating from Bangladesh and the Reang from Tripura and Asam, especially the Mizo Zirlai Pawl, a youth wing of the Mizo National Front. In December 1994 Sawibunga founded the Bru National Union (BNU). When a resangs populated area was declared by the Government of the State of Mizoram as a protected area (Tigres reserve) some young people took arms and killed an Mizo officer near Persang, causing the reprisals of the Mizos, which sets some villages Reang which led to an exodus of about 35,000 people towards triptura. Politically the BNU requested the creation of an Autonomous District Council, proposal supported by the other organization of the Reang, the Reang Democratic Convention Party (RDCP), but the proposal was rejected and hostile statements of the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) and the Young Mizo Association (YMA). In 1997, the Bru National Liberation Front was formed, led by Thang Masha, who acts in Mizoram (Mamit and Lunglei districts), Tripura (Northern Tripura district, Kanchanpur subdivision) and Assam (Hailakandi district). After an alliance with the National Liberation Front of Twipra, a conflict between both groups broke out with strong losses in the BNLF, which later sought the ULFA alliance (Assam) and the Nagalim National Socialist Council. In 2001, negotiations with the Mizoram government began asking for an autonomous district that the state government refuses to grant.