Chinland Guardian

4 January 2012: A ten-member peace delegation from the Chin National Front (CNF) arrives in Thantlang Town this afternoon amidst warm reception from the Chin public who lined up along the town’s main street clad in full traditional Chin dresses.

A Year in Review: Important News & Events that Mattered to the Chin in 2011
31 December 2011

Human Rights:

New Report Shed Light on Abuse Against Chin: In January US-based Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Human Rights released a hard-hitting report on the Chin. Titled “Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State”,

29 December 2011: Chin singers from Burma, Ms Chaw Su Khin and Sangpi are now in Australia, entertaining at gospel concerts and visiting both Burmese and Chin churches as part of the programmes for encouraging youths to grow in Christian manners.

28 December 2011: Over 80 people have fallen ill after being contracted with a mysterious infectious disease in three villages in Falam Township, Chin State.

23 December 2011: Chin locals in small villages are still suffering from various forms of coercive measures committed by authorities and Burma Army soldiers on patrol, the Chin Human Rights Organization‘s sources disclosed.

21 December 2011: Road accidents across Chin State since Burma’s 2010 elections have claimed more than 40 lives and caused over 120 injuries, according to Chinland Guardian‘s sources.

20 December 2011: A Burmese High School principal, U Aung Min Oo, has been accused of siphoning off money collected from students in a small village near the Indian border in Chin State.

19 December 2011: An emergency conference of the Chin National Front has unanimously endorsed the decision of CNF leadership to meet with the Chin State Government in a move welcomed by the Chin public.

15 December 2011: An apparent accidental fire destroyed the house of the State chief judge on Thursday evening when it was engulfed by a rapid blaze in State’s capital Hakha.

09 December 2011 – KUALA LUMPUR: Two Burmese nationals were found killed in a gruesome manner in different incidents in the state of Penang and Kedah of northern Malaysia.