There has been a recent surge in the number of Chin refugees entering Mizoram from the adjacent nation as a result of airstrikes by the Myanmar Army on ethnic insurgents and intense fighting along the.
Inside Mizoram, the areca nut used across India to flavour the ubiquitous paan has become the heart of a controversy about Myanmarese Chin refugees that flared up when angry local farmers allegedly set fire to trucks carrying smuggled areca nuts from across the border