Christian Chin ‘Coerced to Buddhism by State’

Christian Chin from western Burma are denied religious freedom and face coercion to convert to Buddhism as a result of state policy, according to a new report The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) released Threats to Our Existence: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma on Wednesday which exposes a decades-long pattern of religious freedom

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Chin Christians Persecuted

2012-09-05 Burma’s government is violating the religious rights of the ethnic group, according to a new report. RFA Some 90 percent of ethnic Chin consider themselves Christians. Christians among the Chin ethnic group in western Burma are facing religious persecution as they are coerced into converting to Buddhism as part of a government drive to

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Threats to our existence

CHRO’s new report “‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma” exposes a decades-long pattern of religious freedom violations that persist today under the new government, and documents other serious human rights abuses such as forced labour, torture, and other cruel and inhuman treatment, forcing thousands of Chin to flee their homeland.

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Chin MP threatened at gunpoint by military (DVB)

By HANNA HINDSTROMhttp://www.dvb.no/news/chin-mp-threatened-at-gunpoint-by-military/20968 Burmese soldiers stormed into a Christian conference in southern Chin state and threatened a member of the state’s parliament at gunpoint, reports the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO). Several soldiers and two captains burst into the gathering of more than 1,000 delegates at the Chin Evangelical Church in Matupi township, near the

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