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Chin communities and individuals express their grave concern and fear over the two Chin teenage brothers who have been reported ‘missing’ in Alhambra city, California State since last Thursday.

The local authorities in North Dagon Township, Rangoon closed down the Dai Christian Fellowship Church last Sunday, 19 April while the church pastor was attending an International Brethren Conference in Malaysia.

The SPDC’s local authority has ordered villages in Thantlang Township, Chin State to donate 12-feet long wood planks for a pagoda being constructed at Lungler village near the Indian-Burmese border, sources disclosed.

Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) has urged Kuala Lumpur-based UNHCR to take immediate action on behalf of detained Chin refugees and asylum seekers against the ongoing mistreatment and abuses inflicted upon migrants from Burma by the Malaysian authorities.

9 April 2009: A meeting inclusive of all major Burmese opposition alliances last week on the Thai-Burma border collectively said they are on principle opposed to the junta-planned election in 2010, saying that not rejecting the election would amount to approving a seriously flawed constitution that was passed in what is widely viewed as a rigged referendum in May of 2008.

The Chin people stranded as refugees in India’s Delhi are in ‘extremely poor’ conditions with very limited access to humanitarian relief and in serious need of effective protection and services, a report released by Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) said today.

The Zomi diaspora around the world formed for the first time a global coalition called Leitungbup Zomi Innkuan Kipawlna, literally meaning ‘Zomi community international’, on 28 March 2009. The move came to a conclusion after a 4-hour discussion was made via a teleconference hosted by Zomi Innkuan USA.

An ‘unknown’ number of Chin refugees have been found detained in Malaysia after a team of three UNHCR officers and three interpreters visited the Langkap detention centre at Teluk Intan in Perak last Monday.

About 70 people last Friday braved cold and windy weather to commemorate the Resistance Day in front of Burmese Embassy in London. The event, organised by Burma Democratic Concern (BDC), called for rejecting the regime’s planned 2010 election and for working toward the realisation of 1990 election result.

The Zomi Theological College (ZTC) held its 49th Graduation Ceremony on 14 March, 2009 at Falam Baptist Church where a total of 31 students were presented Biblical degrees of Bachelor of Theology (B.Th), Master of Divinity (M.Div) and Bachelor of Religious Education (B.R.E).