December 5, 2007-Washington DC: 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 leaders of Congress.
December 4, 2007 – Washington DC: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a non-partisan panel appointed by the US president and leaders of Congress held public hearing on Burma at the Capitol Hill on Monday.
November 28, 2007-New
By Salai Plato Van Rung Mang
Chinland Guardian Delhi: A delegation of the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) made a three-day visit to New Delhi at the invitation of Indian Parliamentarian Forum for Democracy in Burma (IPFDB) from 25 November to 27 November 2007.
November 5, 2007—Yerevan-London-Kuala Lumpur: A Chin Medical Student Sasa, currently studying the sixth year of Doctor of Medicine at the State Medical University in Armenia and his friends in the United Kingdom have launched a project called “Children of Hope: Burma Project”.
Hundreds of supporters joined a peaceful demonstration against Burma’s ruling dictatorship in Central London on Saturday, showing their solidarity and support for democracy.
Two Chin prominent politicians and elected MPs Honorable Pu, Cin Sian Thang of Zomi National Congress (ZNC) and Honorable Pu Thawng Kho Thang of United Nationalities League for Democracy (UNLD) were arrested in a raid before dawn at their houses by the Burmese authorities in Rangoon.
The peoples’ demonstration against the military regime in Burma continues amid the military government uses of various violent forces against the ongoing protesters. Not only in Rangoon and Mandalay , the demonstrations against the ruling military dictatorship go on in various cities including Hakha, the capital of Chin State.
The military regime used its forces to crack down on peaceful protesters led by the Buddhist monks in Yangon on Wednesday. Troops fired warning shots, tear gas at the crowd and beat some protesters including monks and civilians.
London, UK: Burma has been isolated from the outside world by the military regime for decades and so has further been Chin State within the country. Burma’s military dictatorship is internationally condemned and ill-famed for its brutality in practicing human rights abuses against its own peoples. Yet, little is exposed and known about the Chin people and their long sufferings from Burma’s junta. Many Chin people fled their homeland to various countries near and far.
