October 25th, 2019 – Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) from Belgium and the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) from Italy host a seminar in Seoul, South Korea on November 29th to discuss global human rights abuse cases with 40 legal experts, journalists, and representatives from civil society organizations. The lecturers in the seminar will include some of the leading academic scholars of new religious movements from the United States and Europe. At the seminar titled, “Intolerance and discrimination against new religious movements: an international problem”, the participating experts will cover the current issues of destructive damages caused by…
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On the 19th, the HWPL Peace Education Conference was held under the theme, “HWPL Peace Education, Changing the Future of Korea by Building an Upright Character” to create a peaceful future. HWPL has made agreements with education ministries and institutions, providing peace education to students of different nationalities and cultures. HWPL, the host of the conference, has developed peace education on a global level for the past three years since 2017. Working with educators around the world, HWPL developed teaching materials that can nurture students into peace leaders and citizens. It has signed Memoranda of Agreement with education ministries in…
Locals and internally displaced people (IDPs) from other areas who have sought refuge in Meezar village in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township, say that they have been forced to carry food and supplies for Burma Army troops. The Burma Army called up a total of 35 people in Meezar on the morning of Wednesday, October 23 to work as porters, carrying food rations from the village of Twin Chaung Wa to Kha Maung Wa. The trek is one full day on foot and was scheduled for Thursday. “The Burma Army gave the order to the village headman and the local…
Students in Tung Zan village in Chin State’s Tedim Township have been attending classes in local churches after their high school was destroyed in a fire this month. The October 11 blaze consumed the school building and six houses, including five homes for government staff who are working as schoolteachers. Tung Zan high school principal Derl Pao told Khonumthung News that while the school is operating out of churches, the students still need learning materials and desks. “Our students are attending their classes in three churches and in a primary school. We especially need learning materials and office supplies, including…
The disappearance of local people in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township has raised alarms among government officials and human rights groups as conflict in the region continues to claim civilian victims. According to a statement released last week by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), the latest case involves a farmer and his wife who both went missing earlier this month. The statement said that Ku Huay, from the village of Thayar Kon in Paletwa Township, disappeared on October 5 while he was tending his fields. When his wife, Thanda Oo, went looking for him later that day, she also…
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Chin silkworm farmers have asked that the government secure them a regular supply of high-quality Japanese silkworm eggs so that they can revive the tradition of making silk in Tonzang Township. Silkworm farms were particularly successful in the area between 1960 and 1979, but the government halted provisions of silkworm eggs, and the market disappeared. Recently, the farms have started again under the Muukhwe Multi-Development Team, but farmers say that the lack of silkworm eggs means that they are unable to move forward. Sawmg Liang Pau, chair of Muukwe, described Japanese silkworms as the best in the world, with Korean…
Stone pillars will be put in place to demarcate the border between Chin State and Sagaing Region in accordance with maps dating back to 1938, a state minister said. Mang Hil Dar, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Mines for Chin State, said that the stone pillars were originally set up between 1935 and 1938 by the British, who controlled Burma at that time. “We will base it on that map,” he said, in reference to a notification released by the British interior ministry in 1938 and later published as a map in 1942. “We will set up new…
Two Burma Army soldiers were injured by a landmine explosion in southern Chin State’s Paletwa Township on Friday, according to residents of the area near the town of Paletwa where the incident occurred. The landmine reportedly went off on Friday morning in Palet Chaung, an area located just east of Paletwa, near the Aung Zaydi Pagoda, about 200 meters from Paletwa on the opposite side of the Kaladan River. Soldiers from the Burma Army’s Light Infantry Battalion 289 were patrolling the area at the time, according to local residents. “The sound of the explosion was really loud. People in Paletwa…
The government of Chin State has decided to place statues of Burmese independence hero General Aung San and three Chin leaders who signed the Panglong Agreement in a new municipal park near the state capital Hakha. The park, which is expected to take at least a year to complete, will be located on a 3.8-acre plot of land at the entrance to Hakha, according to the state’s minister for municipal affairs. “We had a plan last year to build statues of the three Chin leaders who signed the Panglong Agreement, together with a stone pillar with information about them in…