Chin communities and Chin student organizations around the world seriously condemned the arbitrary executions of three Chin village headmen on 07 March 2007 and expressed a grave concern for the sudden disappearance of the other two villagers.
May 4, 2007—Washington DC: Chin Student leaders on Friday met with Aaron Cope, Burma Desk Officer of US Department of State at his office in Washington DC. Students held a historic meeting with the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia as they introduce a Chin student body in North America while updating Human Rights situation in Burma.
By Salai Za Uk Ling – 11 April 2007 – Kuala Lumpur: Dally Sui Hlei Par, a 7 year-old refugee girl who was found murdered and mutilated a week after she went missing on March 20 was finally laid to rest in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon.
By Salai Za Uk Ling – 6 April 2007 – Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia on Tuesday deported over 40 Chins along with many more refugees from Burma to the border of Thailand. Two deportees, both under 18, who managed to sneak back in on Wednesday said there were two loads of bus containing about 90 people deported from Semenyih camp. They said the majority of those deported to the Thai-Malaysia border consisted of Chins. Four Kachins were among the deportees. The rest are Burmans and Rohingyas as welll as other ethnic nationalities whom they couldn’t identify.
By Amy Alexander – 6 April 2007- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Dally Sui was a young seven-year-old Chin girl who loved to sing and dance, watch cartoons, and eat traditional Burmese food. As her family prepared to be resettled to the United States, she was excited to begin a new life in America.
By Salai Za Uk Ling – 5 April 2007 – Kuala Lumpur: Over 40 Chins were arrested in a series of raid conducted by RELA in and around Kuala Lumpur today. At around 9 a.m. this morning RELA rounded up a market in Pudu Pasar arresting nearly 30 Chin workers and shop-goers, including 6 persons with UNHCR cards. Among them were two nursing mothers with a three-month and two-month old babies respectively. The babies were left at home with their fathers at the time of arrest.
By Salai Za Uk Ling – 22 March 2007 – Kuala Lumpur: A search is still on for a 7 year-old Chin refugee girl who went missing from her parents’ home in Kuala Lumpur two days ago. Detty’s mysterious disappearance is causing heightened concerns in the Chin community about the safety of their children in Malaysia.
By Amy Alexander – 21 March 2007- Around noon local time today RELA raided construction site in Bukit Bintang and rounded up about 1000 workers including nearly 300 Chins. Those caught in the midday round-up included many UNHCR recognized refugees. As of this evening, it remains unclear just how many persons were arrested.
By Salai Bawi Lian Mang – March 12, 2007: A delegation of Chin National Front (CNF) is leaving this afternoon for Chin State to hold talks with Burmese military regime, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The CNF delegation, led by Dr. Sui Khar of the party’s Secretary of External Affairs is comprised of 10 members including commanders from the party’s armed wing Chin National Army (CNA).
