All Entries in the "Chin" Category
Huge Taxes Pushed On Ethnic Chin By SPDC
21 August 2009: The Tidim Township based LIB 269 of the Burmese Army has seized 19 bulls that were being taken to Mizoram state India and have demanded a large amount of tax from the bull traders on August 19. Mr. Liancinthang and eight of his friends from Tungzan, Tidim township were stopped by the [...]
Introduction To Some Of Burma’s Ethnic Minority Groups
A Closer Look at Burma’s Ethnic Minorities By Hannah Beech / Bangkok Friday, Jan. 30, 2009 Living under the thumb of a brutal junta, the average Burmese hardly leads an easy life. But the plight of the country’s ethnic minorities, many of whom once waged long and bloody insurgencies against the military regime, is even [...]
Chinese Tycoons, Meitei Insurgents Cultivate Poppy In Upper Chin State
7 July 2009: Chinese tycoons and Meitei insurgents have been planting poppies in Tonzang Township, in upper Chin state near the Indo-Burma border. According to a report, the plantation of poppies commenced from early June in Phai Sat, Ai Sit, Hai Cin, Mualpi and other villages, near the border of Tonzang Town and India’s Manipur [...]
Junta Grabs Relief Meant For Fire Victims
30 June 2009: The Burmese military authorities have forcibly taken away most of the relief material, meant for local Chin people, who had suffered due to a fire in their village last April. The relief material had been supplied by their supporters from abroad. According to a report, the Aizawl-based Women’s League of Chin Land [...]
Chin Children In Orphanages Increase
16 June 2009: Many Chin parents cannot afford to send their children to school so they admit them to the Children’s Orphanages in Chin state, western Burma. The Director of Nazareth Children’s Orphanage Home said that there were more children in the home this year in Falam town. “We give priority to orphans. Second come [...]
