A hospital in southern Chin State is struggling to provide enough oxygen for its patients suffering from COVID-19. With only three hours of electricity available every day, Dr Khine Win said the rest of the time they have to use their own generator to keep their five patients alive in Paletwa. Kyaw Kyaw Thee, in charge of the electricity department for Paletwa Township, said that until August 6, four hours of electricity were available every day. “We have two generators for Paletwa town. After the outbreak happened, we have to provide electricity to quarantine centres and the hospital. At the…
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The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) in Hakha Township released a Catholic monk and a Baptist pastor that the civilian resistance group claimed it detained for allegedly reporting its activities to the Burma Army (BA). Catholic monk Rev Fr Noel Hrang Tin Thang and Pu Cung Hnin, the pastor, were detained on July 26 while on their way to Hakha town to visit the military, a CDF official said. CDF told Khonumthung News the duo from Surkhwa town was freed on August 4 after they promised to stop informing to the military. “They agreed to our demands and signed a promise.…
Two hospital staff and two people in quarantine tested positive in Paletwa on August 5, bringing the total active infections in the southern Chin State town to 97. According to Dr. Khine Win from Paletwa Public Hospital, during the third wave, 277 transmissions have been detected. Of these, 210 have recovered, while two people died from the disease. The doctor said that in Myeikwa there are 28 cases and 3 in Sami. Health officials detected 25 cases in Mindat town, among these 10 have recovered. According to Kanpetlet Township Health Department, 54 tested positive, while 10 have recovered and one…
A civilian resistance fighting Burma’s military in southern Chin State reported 12 of its fighters and 16 members of the Burma Army (BA) died during 8 days of conflict the last week of July. After the temporary ceasefire collapsed, heavy fighting between the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) chapter in Mindat and BA has erupted in the township. On July 22, CDF and BA troops clashed near Yang Chaung, where resistance fighter Salai Hong Oum and an unknown number of BA soldiers died in combat. The same day, CDF seized the Ma Kwi Ein Nu Police Station, during which a military…
A civilian group resisting the military regime has detained a Catholic monk and a Baptist pastor, claiming both religious leaders are helping the military in Chin State. “During interrogation, the father has confessed he is working with the Burma Army (BA),” an official from Chinland Defence Force informed Khonumthung News. Both of the men who live in Surkhwa town, Hakha Township, were detained on July 26 while they were on their way to Hakha town to visit the military, the official said. On May 8, the CDF chapter in Hakha attacked and seized a police station in Surkhua, later torching…
Sudan came to an end of a long dictatorship of the former government. There were several difficulties on the journey of Democratization, such as the opposition of signing the agreement of transitional process returning back to democracy in July 2019 and objections to the draft constitutional declaration in August 2019. Nonetheless, Sudan is walking towards democratization since 2019. Omar al-Bashir, the former president of Sudan had begun his rule after the 1989 Sudanese coup d’état and lasted until April 2019, the time of the Sudanese Revolution (December 2018 – April 2019). In August 2019, following the transfer of power from…
Renewed fighting in southern Chin State between the Chinland Defense Force (CDF) and the military has affected civilians from ten villages in Mindat Township. A volunteer helping the villagers displaced from the recent clashes told Khonumthung News it is difficult to determine how many civilians were affected by the hostilities because some have taken refuge in the jungle while others are hiding among their farms. “They are facing many difficulties,” the source said. They do not have enough food to eat or medicine, and since the army blocked rice shipments from reaching the township, even those with money cannot buy…
Chin youths arrested in May and charged with incitement had their trial rescheduled until August 2, after authorities closed the courts because of Burma’s third wave. The July 26 trial for the five youths charged with Article 505 (a) of Burma’s Penal Code will convene on August 2, a woman close to their families told Khonumthung News. Authorities detained the youths after two explosions went off in Paletwa town, southern Chin State. Altogether, armed forces arrested eighteen people, including members of a civil society organisation, later releasing thirteen. On June 17, they charged the five youths with Article 505 (a)…
Seven members of the armed forces defected to a civilian resistance group fighting against Burma’s military regime in southern Chin State. The police officers and soldiers, including a military captain, left their posts at a police station in Ma Kwi Ein Nu, Mindat Township, to join Chinland Defense Force (CDF), bringing their weapons with them. A CDF officer told Khonumthung News after surrounding the police station on Saturday, July 24, that seven police and soldiers defected. “We told them it isn’t good to shoot at each other and asked them to join the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM).” The other five…
The military has prevented the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) from providing vital assistance to the majority of civilians displaced after the Burma Army laid siege to the town of Mindat in May, and during the fighting that ensued with Chinland Defence Force in the weeks that followed. When UNHCR representatives arrived in the small, mountain town in southern Chin State this Monday, the military informed them they could only help internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are living in the 10 camps in Mindat sanctioned by the regime, and not in camps in Mindat Township, where most of…