Mru

See also: MRU

The Mru , or Mro , or Murung are a Ethnicity inhabitant:

With the Bangladesh, hills of the district of Bandarban in the area which one traditionally calls the " Chittagong Hill Leaflets " , where their population was of 80.000 in 2002;
In India in the state of the Western Bengal, where they were hardly 1.200 in 1981.

By their neighbors Chakma and Marma, Mru are called " Lengta" , " Kuki" , " Langye".

In Bangladesh, at the end of the peace agreement of December 2nd, 1997 which put an end to more than 20 years of conflict between the government and the populations indigenous S of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Mru will be represented with the " Chittagong Hill Regional Leaflets Council" who will be in charge of the administration of the 3 districts constituting the area.

History

According to the Rajwang , Chronic of the kings of Arakan, in XIIe century, two Mru would have helped king Da Tha (1153-1165) to find a statue of the Bouddha Mahamuni.

In XIVe century, Mru would have been driven out of Arakan by another people, the Khumi, to which they are ethniquement close. They would then have settled in the Western valley of the Sangu and along the Matamuhuri.

Language and culture

The language mru form with it only a group of the branch tibéto-Burmese of the Languages sino-Tibetans.

Mru are Buddhist but still observe their traditional religion.

See too

External bonds

ethnologue.com '' Mru ''

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