Chinland Guardian

31 October 2013: Representatives of the Chin National Front (CNF) participate in the ongoing meeting of Burma’s ethnic armed organizations held in Laiza, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in Kachin State.

31 October 2013: Members of the Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD) decided to make more effort to change their ethnic name from ‘Chin’ to ‘Zomi’ on the Burmese national identity card.

30 October 2013: More than 500 Chin refugees took to the streets in Delhi today, highlighting their ‘unsafe’ conditions in both India and Burma.

30 October 2013: Two Japanese companies, Mitsubishi and Marima Co. Ltd., visited Chin State in an effort to conduct a survey on the possibility of extracting pine-related products such as resin and turpentine.

28 October 2013: The Chin National Front (CNF) has provided rice with the help of the Nippon Foundation for villages in Chin State affected by food scarcity.

26 October 2013: Thura Shwe Mann, Speaker of the Lower House of the Burmese parliament, has put off his ‘planned’ visit to Chin State, a source close to the government of Chin State said.

25 October 2013: Christians in Matupi Town, Chin State expressed their disappointment over a recent meeting organized last Sunday by Pu Hung Ngai, Chief Minister of the Chin State government.

24 October 2013: Tomás Ojea Quintana, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, said that the government of Burma should address ‘institutionalized discrimination’ against Christians in Chin State.

24 October 2013: A motorbike driven at high speed by a man hit a 5-year-old Chin girl named Mary John last Thursday, leaving her left leg broken.