The army ordered health staff who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), to get out of the staff quarters in Teedim Township Public Hospital in Chin State on March 12. Local youth helped health staff relocate to other places as the army told the medical superintendent to relocate CDM staff by 3 pm on March 12nd, a local from Teedim Township. The army also forced the CDM staff from Hakha People’s Hospital to get out of the hospital compound by 3 pm on March 12th. The army said it would manage hospital work.
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While one Chin youth was released from a military detention camp in Thantlang Township last week, at least nine others are believed to still be in custody in Matupi, Falam, and Hakha townships in Chin State. Soldiers arrested Salai Cung Bwi Lian in Thantlang at night on March 10. He was freed on the evening of March 11, according to local sources. “Soldiers suspected him of bringing a policeman who had joined the Civil Disobedience Movement from Thantlang to Hakha on his motorbike. He was detained in a military camp,” another Thantlang youth told Khonumthung News. Once Salai Cung Bwi…
The Burma Army requested Chin National Front (CNF) to return police officers suspected of seeking refuge in its area in northern Chin State after joining the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). However, the CNF said the police fled to India. CNF met the commander of Burma Army Northwest Command in Hakha this week to discuss the matter. During the meeting, CNF asked the junta’s Chin State Administration Council to release the people detained after the February 1 coup happened and to stop using violence against peaceful demonstrations. Salai Htet Ni, CNF spokesperson, told Khonumthung News that a Tatmadaw column searched for…
Soldiers assaulted and arrested a Christian pastor and three others this week in Matupi town, located in southern Chin State. A youth told Khonumthung News they were arrested on March 10 at a roadblock soldier set up in the evening. Sai Naw Ler, Sayar Byik Thang, Ah Ngun and San David are being held at a detention center in an army camp. The afternoon of the same day, soldiers broke the padlock of a residence to search for a protester. They left the premises when they couldn’t find them. Locals told Khonumthung News that police are investigating copy shops in…
Over seventy-percent of government servants in Chin State joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). Health workers across the country started the movement two days after the coup, and many wore red ribbons in defiance of the military regime or walked off the job. The movement in Chin State is growing despite pressure by senior staff for civil servants to return to work. More than 14,591 of 20,000 staff in Chin State joined the CDM . Hwi Tin, an MP for Paletwa Township, told Khonumthung News staff from the health, educational department and social welfare departments are taking part. However, others are…
A General Administration Department (GAD) officer in Chin State’s Falam Township has requested that the Mizoram state government in India return eight policemen to Myanmar after they sought refuge across the border following the February 1 military coup. The Chin State police officers joined the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement in Burma, refusing to work for the new regime. They crossed the border to neighboring Mizoram state in India to avoid repercussions by security forces and the ruling military council for participating in the ongoing general strike. Saw Tun Win, the GAD officer in Falam, sent an official request to the…
Kyaw Nyein, who served as the Minister of Forestry and Mining under the Thein Sein regime, has accepted a position within the Chin State Administration Council under the current military junta. He said that he took on the role because of the issues facing Paletwa Township, where he lives, and will reportedly work on issues including forestry, agriculture, education, health, electricity access, and tourism. “Paletwa is affected by COVID-10, armed clashes, and now a political crisis. There are many IDPs [internally displaced persons] in the Paletwa area,” he told Khonumthung News. “Because of these issues, I accepted this job for…
A cremation service for an eighteen-year-old protester shot by security forces was held at 3 pm today in Kalay, Sagaing Region. Maung Zin Myo Maung was shot in the chest after live rounds and teargas were fired at a demonstration where four people were shot this Tuesday. The teenager is the first person from Kalay killed by security forces. Maung Zin Myo Maung was sent to the hospital in Mandalay but he died on the way on March 3. His body was sent to Kalay yesterday evening. Since the crackdown against the protest movement in Burma started last month more…
During a demonstration in Hakha, security forces arrested twenty-three people, including a journalist, after using water cannons and tear gas on the peaceful protest in the Chin State capital on March 1. According to locals, police attempted to arrest protesters who were hiding inside a private residence and confiscated people’s motorcycles. “The military government must stop using violence against peaceful protesters,” said Salai Sang Hnin Lian, from Chin Human Rights Organization (CHO). “They have abused their power.” After the arrests, CHO sent detainees blankets and food. The following day police released nineteen people. According to a man who requested anonymity,…
The junta released five lawmakers in Chin State from a military detention facility, who were arrested after staging a coup a month ago, but kept the chief minister and others. The ministers released on February 27, in the morning, have been placed under house arrest. Pau Lum Ming Thang, Health and Social Affairs minister, told Khonumthung News, they aren’t allowed to make phone calls while being detained at their private residences. He doesn’t think anything will happen to them as long as they stay in their homes. The other lawmakers are Soe Htet, minister for Municipal, Electricity and Industry, Zo…