27 April 2010: Malaysian authorities have recently launched a series of crackdowns on immigrants, arresting hundreds of Chin refugees stranded in Malaysia, including children and pregnant women.
27 April 2010: Foreign oil companies, who partner with Burma’s military regime on the Yadana natural gas pipeline to Thailand, have been urged to reveal the over-18-year payments made to the ruling junta, according to a report released today by Earthrights Interntional.
26 April 2010: All ranking generals and senior army officers holding ministerial portfolios within Burma’s ruling State Peace and Development Council have resigned their military posts, a Chinland Guardian source has revealed.
26 April 2010: A Chin refugee father, Fung Ling, and his two friends who offered to assist in speaking Hindi were battered and struck with bricks by two local Indian bikers in Chanakya Place, Uttam Nagar of New Delhi, India around 6pm last Friday, 23 April 2010.
25 April 2010: In a BBC documentary presented by Simon Reeve last Sunday, Chin villagers spoke out how they have been abused and persecuted by SPDC’s army soldiers patrolling along the Indian-Burma border.
24 April 2010: The risk of becoming a legally defunct entity post-May 6 should not deter the National League for Democracy (NLD) from keeping its party signboard on public display and flying its flag at its headquarters, detained popular leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told her followers.
24 April 2010: Traumatised Chin refugee boy, Khual Kham, testified how he was raped two months ago by local Indian men only after the boy’s parents were informed of the incident by his close friends who are deeply concerned over his mental condition.
24 April 2010: A series of recent violent assaults on Chin refugees by local Indians in New Delhi has raised heightened concerns for the safety of refugees from Burma stranded in the capital city of India.
23 April 2010: The newly established Union Democratic Party (UDP) unveiled its 2010 election platform Thursday at a press conference in the former capital Rangoon.
22 April 2010: In an intriguing turn of event that could lead to greater recognition of the rights of nearly 400 million indigenous peoples around the world, New Zealand this week reversed its former position and gave a key endorsement to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
