Some local people of Chin state, Burma have shifted to other places from areas where they were settled for fear of Manipuri insurgent groups, who have been permitted to settle in Haicin village of Cikha sub-township of Ton Zang town, Chin state, by the Burmese government.
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The Central Anti-Drugs Squad (CADS) has arrested a Chin national, who tried to forcibly sell a teenaged Chin girl on 24 November in Aizawl, Mizoram northeast state of India.
On a request by the Burma Social-Welfare Association (BSA) authorities, Burmese migrants staying in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram have been inoculated with Hepatitis B prevention medicines for the first time at the lowest possible rates by the Samaritan Society of Mizoram (SCM) on 19 November.
Following negotiations between the Burmese government and ethnic armed groups comprising the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), Karen National Union (KNU), Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and Chin National Front (CNF) on 19 November, the Burmese government and CNF will go for peace talks in Hakha, the capital of Chin state within January 2012.
A Chin refugee was stabbed to death by Thin Lin from Hmawbi Township, Rangoon division, Burma in Cameroon highland of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at around 5 pm local standard time on November 16.
Chin Churches abroad will hand over 500 lakhs Kyat for around 30,000 Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) created in the conflict between the new Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Army after the ceasefire agreement was broken.
After two decades of relentlessly fighting the Burmese government, the Chin National Front (CNF) has said that the reason it took up arms was only to protect Chin nationals.
14 November 2011: Local people in western Chin state have alleged that there is religious discrimination in nine schools, operating in the border areas set up for ethnic development since 2003.
A complaint was filed by local Chin Christians from the northern and eastern bridge of Mung River in Kanpetlet Township, Southern Chin state to Naypyidaw on November 9 regarding demolition of Christian crosses.
During the second Chin state parliament assembly session on November 8 and 9 in Hakha town, most parliament members submitted only questions, said U Kyaw Nyain, Minister of Mining and Forest.