Category: Archived

In September last year, thousands of peaceful protesters took to the streets, demanding freedom and democracy in Burma. In response to the monk-led demonstration, known as Saffron Revolution, Burma’s brutal military regime cracked down on the peaceful protesters, opening fire, killing hundreds and arresting thousands. In the aftermath, more have been tracked and hunted down from house to house by SPDC’s non-uniformed soldiers who filmed and took photos of active and frontline protesters including monks, nuns and students during the nationwide protest.

London, UK: The Burma Campaign UK today launched a boycott campaign, calling on Cotton Traders to stop sourcing clothes from Burma. Clothing exports are an important source of income for Burma’s brutal military dictatorship, the campaign said.

An international seminar on ‘exploring the history, culture and identity of the Chin people’ which kicked off last Monday is held at Chaltlang Tourist Lodge in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram State, India.

Aizawl, India: A meeting of Chin groups yesterday agreed on launching a coordinated cross-border relief program from Mizoram to provide emergency food relief to thousands of people in Chin State who are facing a major food crisis.

Delhi, India: The Chin people, based in New Delhi, had an inspiring meeting with their prominent national figures including Professor Salai Tun Than, Pu Lian Uk (MP), Salai Kipp Kho Lian and Salai Bawi Lian Mang, who dropped by one day in New Delhi, on their way to Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, India to attend Chin Historical Seminar to be held on October 13-15, 2008.

To mark the tenth anniversary of its inception, the Chin Forum published the first magazine which will be distributed at the Chin historical seminar to be held at Mizoram University in Aizawl, India next week.

[Chinland Guardian Note: In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the struggle for democracy in Burma and the birth of the new Chin revolutionary movement, Chinland Guardian is proud to present the following memoirs by a former student activist and ex-Chin revolutionary soldier. Two decades after he was forced into exile, Victor Biak Lian remains active in the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma. He now works as a member of the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC), the Chin Forum (CF) and a member of the Board of Directors of Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO). An advisory member of the Chinland Guardian News Group, Victor Biak Lian was visiting Switzerland to attend a meeting on “Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” at the United Nations in Geneva where Chinland Guardian caught up with him.