Posts Tagged ‘Chin state’

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

Khonumthung News, September 23 - A Burmese Army officer allegedly attempted to rape two women in Matupi Township in southern Chin state, Burma on August 30. Full story

Khonumthung News, August 21 - The World Food Program is to organize a follow up meeting on the food crisis in Chin state at the UNDP meeting hall in Rangoon, Burma on August 25. Full story

Aug 19, 2008 (DVB)–Around 2000 Khami people from Paletwa township in Chin state have been forced by food shortages to migrate to Saiha and Lawngtlai provinces in India’s Mizoram state. Full story

Khonumthung News( August 5, 2008) - The first ever meeting to discuss the food crisis in Chin state in Burma is going to be held in the World Food Program (WFP) head-office in Rangoon, former capital of Burma on Wednesday. Full story

Khonumthung News, May 27 - Burmese military authorities have gone on overdrive collecting money from people in 11 villages in Thangtlang Township in Chin state, Burma to renovate a military camp. The extortion is back after a brief lull in using forced labour, porters and collecting funds before the referendum. Full story

Khonumthung News, May 3 - The Burmese military junta recently decided to add some part of Chin state as an integral part of Sagaing division. Nay Pyi Daw, the new capital of Burma reportedly sent its delegate U Aung Myo Nyunt from the central survey department stationed in Nay Pyi Daw to Kalay town to carry out the demarcation in which it plans to cut some part of Chin state, said a letter of complaint from village heads from the excluded villages of Chin state sent to Nay Pyi Daw on April 3. Full story

Khonumthung News, April 29 - The Burmese Army has suddenly stopped using forced labour and porters in Chin state, northwestern Burma in the run up to the referendum to approve the constitution to be held on May 10. Full story

Khonumthung, April 21 -Burma's Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-General Thura Aung Ko made an official trip to townships in southern Chin state, western Burma to campaign for the referendum to approve the constitution in the first week of April. On April 4, Thura Aung Ko along with Chin State's tactical commander Brigadier Huen Ngai visited villages in Matupi town, southern Chin state and reportedly encouraged ... Full story

Khonumthung, April 17 - The Burmese military regime is pressurizing the Gospel Baptist Church in Falam Town in Chin state, to celebrate the church's Silver Jubilee ahead of the referendum to approve the constitution. Full story