16 June 2011: Two Burmese Army personnel were killed in a bus accident on June 14. The bus was proceeding from Chin state to Kachin state, Burma carrying 80 soldiers as reinforcement in the army’s war with the Kachin Independence Army. Forty were injured. “The soldiers were going to Kachin state as reinforcement,” said a relative of an army man Hakha, the capital of Chin state.
Author: Editor
14 June 2011: Traders operating along the No. 2, Indo-Burma border road are in a spot due to a drop in the rate of the Kyat vis a vis the Indian Rupee after the new government came to power in Burma.
14 June 2011: Local people have been exhorted not to deploy teenage Chin women in government functions and reception venues by Mr. No Than Kap, the elected Chin representative from Sagaing division, upper Burma. He is also Chairman of the Chin Progressive Party (CPP).
9 June 2011: A Chin national was arrested with 32 grams of heroin by the Mizoram anti-drug squad based in Zokhawthar, No-2, Indo-Burma border trade road on June 6. The Zoram Times, a daily newspaper in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram state in northeast India, said that the peddler was identified as Liandet (65).
7 June 2011: The woes of the people of Chin state has only worsened with the new government coming to power in Hakha, the capital. Electricity supply to the state has become woeful compared to earlier, said Mr. Van Lian, Chairman of Chin state National League for Democracy.
6 June 2011: Three Chins died after being struck by lightning in Thantapin village in Tamu township, Sagain Division Burma, on 5 June, a report said.
4 June 2011: People in rural areas of Chin state, Burma are being forced into portering by the Burmese Army in Chin state.