Archive for the ‘Myanmar-Burma News’ Category

24 August 2010 Introduction: Burma and India share a 1,643 km-long land border, which divides the homelands of three major ethnic groups in the region, namely, the Chin, Kachin and Naga. Modern international boundaries divide the Chin into Chin State, Sagaing Division and Magwe Division in Burma, Mizoram and Manipur States in India, and Bawm Area of Chittagong Hills Track in Bangladesh. The Kachin are divided ... Full story

22 August 2009: Over one hundred families in Hakha, Falam and Thantlang towns in Chin state, western Burma have begun to use LPG for cooking. Full story

12 June 2009: Most Chin people are suffering from Malaria in the Indo-Myanmar border area of Paletwa Township, Southern Chin State, western Burma. Full story

(By Van Biak Thang, Chinland Guardian) -  Salai Hla Moe, a member of National League for Democracy (NLD) based in Matupi Township, Chin State, died last month of 'blood disease' due to harsh condition and lack of medical treatment in Burma’s Myingyan prison. Full story

Khonumthung News, 2 June 2009 - The Chin National Front (CNF) has dispatched a seven-point statement to the US government on June 2, which includes the demand for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The CNF has been fighting the Burmese military junta for 20 years for democracy and a federal state in Burma. Full story

Khonumthung News, 28 May, 2009: Church leaders and politicians in Chin state, western Burma, has requested the Chin people to stop migrating to third countries as refugees. Full story

By Van Biak Thang, Chinland Guardian, 23 May, 2009 Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) yesterday released a report documenting first-hand information on SPDC's human rights violations among the Chin and Kachin in Burma after making a visit to the Kachin State and to Chin refugees in Malaysia last week. Full story

Khonumthung News, 23 March - The Paletwa Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) authorities are collecting money from the people to recover expenses incurred by participants of the Union Day ceremony in Nyipidaw, capital of Burma on February 12, 2009. . Map of Chin State, Burma There were 25 people who participated in the Union ... Full story

February 12, 2009 (Khonumthung News) - A class X student of Lailaipi (LaiLenpi) village was beaten up so badly by the commander and second commander of LaiLenPi camp from the Matupi based Burmese Army battalion 304 that his ribs and hand were fractured.  The student has been admitted to Matupi hospital, Chin state. The incident occurred on 15 January 2009 when the two commanders told him ... Full story

New Delhi (Mizzima) – The Chin National Army, the armed wing of ethnic the Chin rebel group – the Chin National Front - on Wednesday vehemently denied accusations of abusing the rights of Chin people, who are already vulnerable to Burmese military persecution. The New York based, Human Rights Watch, in its new report released on Wednesday said the actions of CNF, Chin's biggest armed rebel ... Full story