Mro people

Also known as, Mru, Murung, Mrung, the Mro refer to the tribes who on the border with Burma (Myanmar), India, and Bangladesh. They are identified as a sub-group of Chin people. The majority of the people live in western Burma and they're spread around southern Chin State and northern Rakhine State. In Bangladesh, they reside in the Chittagong Hills in southeast Bangladesh. In India, they reside in the districts of west Bengal.

Origin

Locally, the Mro are known as Taung-Mros and they claim that their ancestors dwelt at the source of the Kaladan River. However, they are unsure about when they migrated to the region. They have no division of different exogamous clans or groups of clans. Neither do they have a chieftain class or a ruling class. No clear tradition of origin. No one seems to ascertain whether they came from northwestern, northeastern or southern Burma. The origin of Mro cannot be fully depicted without including Khami people. Due to frequent invasions by Shandu people, and eventually the British colonization, Ahraing Khami, migrated to the hilly regions, at the sources of the Kaladan, the Pi Chaung and the Mi Chaung streams in the Arakan Hill Tracts, where Mru and Ahraing Khami, another group of Khami, had been living. In fear of Ahraing Khami, Mro and Awa Khami, migrated to the Chittagong Hill Tracts where they have been inhabiting ever since.

Mro (Unicode block)

Mro is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Bangladesh Mru language.

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