by Jennifer GoldChristian TodayPosted: Friday, January 26, 2007, 10:14 (GMT)Representatives from the Chin and Kachin ethnic groups in Burma met earlier in the week with the UK Minister of Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs, Ian McCartney MP. It was the first time that Chin and Kachin representatives have met with a UK Foreign Office minister,
The Aizawl PostMarch 10, 2007Aizawl: Chin Christians around the world has issued a joint statement yesterday condemning the Burmese military regime State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) for it’s systematic persecution against Chin Christians in Burma and urged the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief to investigate violations of religious freedoms
By MuanaMizzima News (www.mizzima.com) 18 December 2006 – The people of Mizoram have been cited as a model for East Burma in term of politics and human rights by the Director of the Chin Human Rights Organization. Salai Bawilianmang, Director, CHRO has held up Mizoram as a model for people struggling for civil and political
The Aizawl PostDecember 7, 2007-Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) had testified about decades long systematic persecutions of Chin Christians at a public hearing on Burma at the Capitol Hill on Monday. The hearing was organized by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a non-partisan panel appointed by the United States president and
The Aizawl PostAizawl-May 20, 2008: The Burmese military junta announces on May 15 that the military backed constitution was approved by 92 percent of the people on the May 10 referendum with 99 percent eligible voter turned out while several rights groups and the opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) led by noble peace
Flowering Bamboo Leads to Starvation in Burma By Joan DelaneyEpoch Times StaffJul 22, 2008A Burmese advocacy team is seeking Canada’s help for 100,000 people in Burma’s Chin State who are facing a serious food crisis as a result of a rat invasion. The mass flowering of bamboo has led to an explosion of rats which
Burma: Cyclone, Starvation – Now Plague of Rats Devastates Burmese VillagesGenerals ignore a once in 50-year freak of nature that wrecks communities Pete Pattisson in Chin state, BurmaThe Guardian (UK): September 10, 2008http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/10/burma.famineIt is an impressive arsenal – more than 100 weapons, each with a sensitive trigger – but it is a feeble defence against
August 11, 2008 www.pwrdf.org Since 2006, Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar), bordering the Mizoram state of India, has been plagued by a severe food crisis. The year 2006 marked the beginning of a new cycle of bamboo flowering, which occurs about every 50 years in the region. It triggered the explosion in
Rampaging Rats Bring Starvation to Burma By Bernadette CarrollSeptember 26, 2008BBC News, Chin state, Burma ( http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/asia- pacific/7633986. stm ) Rats destroy subsistence crops in Burma’s Chin State In Burma’s north-west Chin state, thousands of people say they are starving. The Mara tribe say hundreds of their community have died in the past
Super Rats Invade; Blamed for Myanmar FamineAs Thousands Starve, Officials Seize Food Aid, Relief Groups Say By KYLIE SOBELABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=6039724&page=1)October 16, 2008 A rat infestation so severe that an estimated 100,000 people are on the brink of starvation is devastating the Chin State in Western Burma, and the nation’s government is doing nothing to