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Burma Military begins anti-insurgency campaign in Thang Tlang Township in Chin state.

To terminate insurgency groups moving around the Indo-Burma border area, villagers around Thang Tlang township have been engaging in militia training since 10 a.m. on Jan. 6, according to an order issued by Light Infantry Battalion No.268 commander Lieutenant Colonel Win Bo, said a Tlang pi villager who participated in training, requesting anonymity.

The Chin National Front, (CNF) welcomes and appreciates recent political developments in Burma, where certain unlawfully held political detainees have been released after CNF holding its fourth central executive committee meeting at its head office on Nov. 19-26.

Local people in Matupi township have taken the initiative to construct a suspension bridge where no ferry passage is available.

The summoning of Myanmar Military Intelligence (MI) agents in the Indo-Myanmar border areas has reduced the number of border traders.

No more rigorous inspections of local people and businessmen will be conducted by the official Township level immigration office and Police at the checkpoint crossing in Haka Township which is the capital city of Chin State, or at the Thang Tlang Township checkpoint, said a businessman from Thang Tlang who had been in Mizoram on business.

Officials of the education department from Thang Tlang Town in Chin State, Myanmar have allegedly asked Thang Tlang Township students from Grade-X to nursery school, to buy fixed price stationery goods at school, and forced them to join tuition classes.