January 27, 2025 — The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) welcomes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) 2024 Annual Report, which calls for the U.S. Government to redesignate Burma as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for the 25th consecutive year. This recommendation, made under the International Religious Freedom Act, highlights the ongoing and systematic violations of...
The video transcript of the proceeding of "Burma in Transition: Next Steps to Advance Religious Freedom and Improve Conditions for Religious Victims" is now available on the USCIRF YouTube channel. The text of CHRO's written testimony is also available.
Salai Za Uk Ling As the world prepares to celebrate Christmas, tens of thousands of Christians in Chin State, Myanmar, face a dark and devastating reality. Instead of gathering in the warmth and safety of their churches, they will be forced to assemble in makeshift shelters, constantly in fear of airstrikes and military brutality. Nearly
The Observers (France24): Salai Za Uk Ling is Deputy Executive Director the Chin State Human Rights Organisation (CHRO). He is a Baptist Christian and along with his team, Salai Za Uk Ling documents abuses committed by the country’s army. They have counted more than 50 church attacks since February 2021 in Chin State, which range from aerial bombardments to ransacking by ground troops
Rev. En Khat Muan of Lawibual Baptist Church was arrested together with a local youth leader Lian Sian Mung on accusation that they abetted the resistance group PDF-Zoland in trying to persuade the public to boycott the state-run schools, which were re-opened by the miltiary junta in Tedim in northern Chin State.
(UCA News) — At least 49 buildings including a church have been set ablaze in the deserted town of Thantlang in Myanmar’s western Chin state due to shelling by the military. Thantlang Centenary Baptist Church — where the slain pastor Cung Biak Hum served as a minister — was burned to cinders on Nov. 25,
Thematic Briefing: the state of freedom of religion or belief for Chin in Burma 2013
Persecution and coerced conversion of ethnic Chin Christians in Burma: academic paper for SEAHRN Conference 2012
Persecution and coerced conversion of ethnic Chin Christians in Burma – presentation by Rachel Fleming
The United States Commission On International Religious Freedom Public Hearing After The Saffron Revolution, Repression, And The U.S. Policy Option For Burma” Statement By Salai Bawi Lian Of Chin Human Rights Organization The CapitolWashington DC-December 3, 2007 Thank you. Thank you very much Mr. Chairman and the honorable commission. A few months ago, the world