The skeletal remains of approximately 15 junta troops and their family members who fled Chin State’s Matupi Town when resistance forces attacked the town in June 2024 have been found in a remote jungle nearby. The bodies were found on 11 March 2025, by members of the Mindat Camp Management Committee in Sub-district 14 of Matupi Township near the border with Mindat Township. They are believed to have fled fighting in Matupi Town and died about a month later in the jungle from a lack of food and water and widespread diarrhoea. The Chin Brotherhood Alliance (CBA) and its allies,…
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The junta has been forcibly conscripting more young people, including 13-year-old minors, In Kale (Kalay) Town, Sagaing Region, Junta troops took away about 30 youths, some of whom were just playing sports, from various places in Kale Town between 5 and 10 March 2025. A source close to one of the abducted youths said to Khonumthung: “A young man from my neighbour’s family was also abducted. He was playing Chinlone [cane ball] with his friends when soldiers suddenly arrived and took them away. About 10 young men were seized from there. Since my neighbour is still a minor, his family…
Residents displaced by the junta’s airstrikes in southern Kale Township, Sagaing Region, unable to return home are facing food shortages due to a lack of food. Since 31 January, over 10,000 residents from 15 villages in southern Kale Township have been displaced due to the junta’s relentless airstrikes, which have continued for nearly three months. “Displaced people are struggling to access clean water as they are forced to take shelter in forests and along creeks. The grassroots communities are facing severe hardships, with poor health, limited access to water, and difficulties in sustaining their livelihoods. Even though we have one…
A total of 280 Chin people were killed, and more than 1,400 houses, as well as religious and government buildings, were destroyed due to the junta’s airstrikes in and outside Chin State, according to a report by Institute of Chin Affairs (ICA) on 4 March. According to the ICA, during the more than four years since the coup until February 2025, the military council conducted 250 airstrikes on areas inhabited by Chin people, killing over 200 Chin civilians and more than 80 Chin resistance members, while injuring over 450 others. Salai Van Sui San, spokesperson of the ICA, said: “The…
Some residents of Mindat Town in Chin State are severely short of basic food supplies and have been reduced to foraging in the forest to sustain themselves. Filmmaker Salai Nai Hone recorded the daily struggle faced by an elderly woman living in a Mindat Township village on 28 February 2025. She has no essential food supplies like rice and salt and instead has to rely on bananas, banana stems, and edible leaves foraged from the forest. According to Salai Nai Hone, she is not the only Mindat Township resident facing such dire conditions because they were unable to flee the…
On February 22, an international peace organization, Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL), held an online seminar titled “How to Achieve Peace: The Answer Lies in the DPCW.” The seminar was organized to share the value of the DPCW and discuss practical ways to implement it. More than 70 peace activists, education experts, and journalists from 13 countries, including Timor-Leste, Cameroon, and South Sudan, attended the event, exchanging views and discussing strategies for achieving peace. On March 14, 2016, HWPL, in collaboration with international law experts from 15 countries, drafted and published the “Declaration of Peace and Cessation…
People who were abducted from Kale (Kalay) Town in Sagaing Region, forcibly conscripted and sent for military training in October 2024 have now completed their training and been deployed to the frontlines. After being abducted in Kale Town conscripts are sent to Military Training Depot 10 in Kale Town where they have to complete three months of training before being deployed to frontlines, including in Sagaing Region and Chin State, according to a Kale Town resident who has been monitoring the situation. He said to Khonumthung: “Individuals conscripted from downtown Kale and the surrounding areas were taken to Military Training…
The United States worldwide suspension of aid has caused the loss of vital healthcare services in Chin State, according to the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO). It has forced the CHRO’s medical teams to stop providing essential healthcare services to local communities, severely impacted support for healthcare workers and disrupted the transportation sector. Dr. Jay, a CHRO healthcare official said: “As a result of the funding cuts, it’s become difficult to maintain our ability to provide essential healthcare support. We’re constantly looking for alternative funding sources, but as you know, that’s not something we can secure overnight. As a result,…
185 young men from Kale (Kalay) Town in Sagaing Region have been arbitrarily arrested and conscripted since the conscription law came into effect on 10 February 2024. The first arbitrary arrests and conscriptions took place during the sixth round of conscription in October 2024 when 45 people were taken. Subsequently, in the seventh and eighth rounds of conscription 50 and 30 people respectively were arrested and conscripted. The ninth and current round of subscription started at the beginning of January and since then 60 more people have been arrested and conscripted. According to the Kale Town People’s Struggle Leading Committee,…
The Institute of Chin Affairs (ICA) reports that a total of 474 members of Chin resistance members, including nine women, have been killed during the four years of resistance against military dictatorship in Chin State. The ICA released its research findings on 1 February on the military council’s human rights violations against Chin people during the four years since the military coup. ICA spokespersonSalai Van Sui San said: “Most of these resistance members were killed in action. Women resistance members were found to lose their lives either due to health issues or airstrikes.” The ICA states that Chin youth initially participated…