Aizawl, Feb. 15: A New Delhi-based rights organisation has urged the Mizoram government to adopt a long-term policy for Hmar refugees who have taken refuge here and ensure their security.

?The Hmar refugees who fled from Manipur need to be treated in a better way with good rehabilitation programmes so that they feel a sense of security,? chairman of Sinlung Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Organisation, David Buhril, told reporters here today.

Describing the condition of Hmars living along the rebel-infested Manipur-Mizoram boundary, he said militants had let loose a reign of terror in villages inhabited by the tribals and that there was gross violation of human rights.

The atrocities had forced thousands of Hmar and Paite villagers to flee their homes and take refuge in Mizoram.

Hmar villagers had to flee their homes in south Manipur following a standoff between two armed groups ? the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and the Hmar Peoples Convention (Democratic) ? last month.

The Hmar Students Association headquartered here had blamed the UNLF for the harassment caused to the Hmar community while the two outfits had accused one another of harassing the villagers and ?forcing the exodus?.

Buhril also called upon the Manipur government and the Centre to bring about a solution to the problem, which he said was a spillover of the counter-insurgency operations in the region. He condemned the Manipur government for its failure to provide peace, security and governance in the Hmar-inhabited areas.

?The governments should look into the welfare and development of the people in distress and provide all the required security to them so that they may survive and prosper as human beings,? he stressed.