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
India urged to take Burmese refugees Australia Broadcasting Corporation http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200902/s2479867.htm Radion Australia: February 2, 2009 12:19:39 A report released last week by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch provides a rare insight into on-going human rights abuses by Burma’s military authorities against Burma’s ethnic Chin who live in the western region near the border with India.
Compass Direct News-BURMA: REPORT DOCUMENTS ABUSE OF CHIN CHRISTIANSBURMA: REPORT DOCUMENTS ABUSE OF CHIN CHRISTIANSHuman Rights Watch shows systematic, officially sanctioned religious freedom violations. DUBLIN, February 20, 2009 (Compass Direct News) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s
HRW Urges Myanmar to Stop Abuse of Chin Minority http://www2.dwworld.de/southasia/SoutheastAsia/1.234866.1.html January 28, 2009 The high military presence has deeply affected the lives of Christian Chin in western Myanmar The high military presence has deeply affected the lives of Christian Chin in western Myanmar A report by Human Rights Watch called on the military government
Burma’s ‘abused Chin need help’ By Jonathan HeadBBC News, BangkokJanuary 28, 2009http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7855179.stm Chin woman, refugee camp, Malaysia 2007Chin people flee persecution and hardship on the Indian-Burma border The US group Human Rights Watch has called for better protection of the Chins, one of Burma’s least known and most persecuted minorities. Ill-treatment of many ethnic minorities
Chin refugees in India risk being “forced back” to Myanmar28 Jan 2009 09:03:00 GMTSource: ReutersBANGKOK, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Up to 100,000 Christian Chin who have fled to India in the past 20 years to escape persecution by Myanmar’s Buddhist military rulers are at risk of being forced back, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.The
Report: Myanmar’s Chin people persecuted Tuesday, January 27, 2009By DENIS D. GRAY, Associated Press Writer FOX NEWS: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Jan27/0,4670,ASMyanmarChin,00.htmlBANGKOK, Thailand — The “forgotten” Chin people, Christians living in the remote mountains of northwestern Myanmar, are subject to forced labor, torture, extrajudicial killings and religious persecution by the country’s military regime, a human rights group said Wednesday.
Myanmar: India urged to protect Christian Chin minorityBy: Dibin SamuelChristian TodayFriday, 30 January 2009, 15:25 (IST)http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/india-urged-to-protect-christian-chin-minority-myanmar/3450.htmThousands of Chin Christians who fled to India from Burma in the past 20 years to escape persecution are at risk of being forced back, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday. One of the ethnic minority groups from Myanmar,
Myanmar abusing Christian Chin minority: rights group Jan 27, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gjqP4j378-lhdyHqhCHKPcFUSEXQ BANGKOK (AFP) — Myanmar’s military regime is committing widespread abuses against the mainly Christian Chin ethnic group, who face famine, forced labour, torture and persecution, a rights group said Wednesday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said tens of thousands of Chin flee across the
Human Rights Watch Calls for Aid to Burma Refugees in IndiaBy Ron CorbenBangkok28 January 2009http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-01/2009-01-28-voa19.cfm?CFID=191416924&CFTOKEN=96322755&jsessionid=883046d56014548ac26a11525c111d259417 Rights group, Human Rights Watch, is calling for India to provide access to the United Nations to assist up to 100,000 Burmese ethnic Chin who have fled persecution and poverty in Burma. Human Rights Watch accuses Burma’s military government