Category: Recent News

11 April 2011: Burmese soldiers are accused of breaking their own rules by selling alcohol in Matupi Township, Chin State – against a ban they supported, Chin Human Rights Organisation’s source revealed.

10 April 2011: The ongoing situation of food insecurity in Chin State is expected to get worse, with the coming of monsoon that dramatically reduces access to other off-farm income-generating activities, according to the United Nations OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs).

08 April 2011: Burma Army Light Infrantry Battalion (LIB) No. 140 patrolling in Matupi Township of Chin State forcibly ordered 16 locals including a 16-year-old boy from Khuangan village to carry their military equipment on 25 March 2011.

07 April 2011: Burma’s military authorities have forcibly ordered local people including government employees to participate in the militia training in Hakha and Thantlang towns in Chin State since late last month, a source from Chin Human Rights Organisation said.

06 April 2011 – KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 109 immigration detainees, with majority of them being Burmese nationals, escaped from an overcrowded detention centre in Lenggeng, south of Kuala Lumpur after a riot broke out and a wooden building of the centre was burnt on Monday night.

05 April 2011: More than ten refugee and stateless representatives expressed their grave concerns regarding the increasing domestic problems facing their communities in India and South Asia at a conference organised by The Other Media on 30-31 March in Delhi.

03 April 2011: The local military authorities have ordered Calthawng villagers including women and children in Matupi Township to work on the Matupi-Hakha road construction under the supervision of Mindat District Construction Department, Chin Human Rights Organisation’s (CHRO) source revealed.

03 April 2011: Mr. Zaw Ling Aung, 28, was knifed to death by his colleague, Tha Fu, 37, after a fight broke out between the two Chin refugees near Cameroon Highlands, Malaysia last Thursday.

02 April 2011: Naypyidaw’s authorities have launched a new state-run daily newspaper called ‘Myawaddy’, another mouthpiece of Burma’s ruling junta published by the Department of Psychological Warfare.

02 April 2011: The Malaysian Immigration has arrested more than 50 Chin refugees including women near Ipoh city of Perak State in Malaysia around 1am local time last Saturday while heading for the capital, Kuala Lumpur.