The displaced people are suffering from food shortages and drinking unclean water, community representatives say. By KHONUMTHUNG NEWS Displaced people from Chin State’s Paletwa Township seeking refuge in India’s Mizoram state have reported suffering from severe stomach pain, malaria, and cholera in the forest camps where they are currently staying. The refugees—who are mostly ethnic Arakanese—are in India after fleeing clashes between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army in Paletwa. “The displaced people don’t have mosquito nets—that’s why they are suffering from malaria,” said Ko Yawna, a Chin volunteer within the community. He explained that the Arakan National Movement…
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About 600 Rakhine refugees staying at the India-Myanmar border since fleeing Myanmar Army operations in Chin State in November 2017, are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, according to a local relief worker. The refugees are staying in Hmawngbuchuuak village, an ethnic Rakhine village in southern Mizoram, about five miles from the Myanmar border. They have been relying mainly on rice donations from local Mizo and Chin church communities, but these are not sufficient. The refugees are camping in makeshift huts, but about half of the over 170 families do not have plastic sheets for roofing. They have no latrines…
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A report said Salai Lian Luai, Chief Minister of Chin state will be invited to attend at the greatest cultural festival of Mizo (Chin) people, which will be held on 1 and 2 April 2018. The program was arranged by Pu Lal Thanhawla, Chief Minister of Mizoram and Chapchar Kut Organizing Committee on 10 January and they had decided to invite Chin state Chief Minister Pu Lian Luai as Father of the festival and other various Chin tribes will also be invited, highlighted in The Aizawl Post newspapers. In the first day of the festival, Mizo cultural sports will be…
A local of Burdukbanga village name Jitua Tongchangya (26) in Lawngtlai district, Mizoram has severely injured after an explosion of landmine at Indo-Myanmar border and he has been admitted at Lawngtlai civil hospital on 15 January 2018. The Aizawl Post newspapers said that Jitua Tongchangya and his friend Morokto Tongchangya were trampled on the landmine while they were searching foods in the forest. “Jitua Tongchangya lost his left leg and severely injured his right heel. But his life is not dangerous condition. His friend is not injured,” said a local. A report said that the landmine was trapped in Indian…
Private illegal loggers from the Sagaing Region are extracting precious timbers from the Chin State’s Tonzang Township every day, according to a village administrator. Sialthawzang Village Administrator said the illegal loggers from Kalaymyo, Sagaing Region are extracting teak and pyinkado in the upper area of the village in Tonzang Township. “Teak and pyinkado are abundant in that area. Private illegal loggers from Kalaymyo are smuggling them. Around two or three logging trucks are carrying them every night,” said the village administrator Pu Khen. Sialthawzang Village is located furthest from Tonzang town and it shares border with Kalay Township. The forest…
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