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
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,