At least 200 Chin villages along the borders with India and Bangladesh, totaling no less than 100,000 people or roughly twenty per cent of the entire population of Chin State, is directly affected by the food shortage as a result of bamboo flowering and rat infestations that occured every 50 years in the region. According to latest information, at least 200 families from southern Chin State have fled to Mizoram and Bangldesh. Please see detail report "CRITICAL POINT: Food Scarcity and Hunger in Burma's Chin State".

Chin Human Rights Organization is calling for urgent and concerted international relief efforts to address growing humanitarian crisis in Chinland that has brought much devastation to hundreds of villages along Burma`s western border.

Chin communities around the world and the Primate World Relief and Development Fund have responded the CHRO' call for action and provided life saving food assistance to 69 villages through cross border assistance. There are more than hundreds of villages waiting for help while they are strugling their day to day life by digging roots and picking leaf in the jungle.

To help and learn more about the situation, please contact;

Salai Bawi Lian Mang (CHRO Executive Director)

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Tel: +1-510-332-0983

Victor Biak Lian (CHRO Member of Board of Director)

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Amy Alexander (CHRO Regional Advocacy and Campaign Officer)

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Tel: +66.85.23.02.609

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Refugees

Thousands of Chin families, men, women and children have fled to India, Bangladesh Thailand and Malaysia and other countries to escape political suppression, forced labour, religious persecution and other forms of human rights violations. It is estimated that at least 60,000 Chin refugees are living in India while about 10,000 thousands more live in Malaysia. Several thousands sought refuge in other countries.

Humanitarian issues

As the security and humanitarian conditions of Chin refugees from Burma in neighboring countries, especially in India and Malaysia is worsening, one of the CHRO’s main activities is protection, empowerment and providing emergency humanitarian assistance to Chin refugees. The following are some of the CHRO activities on refugee concern

Forced labour reports

Each block of villages in Paletwa area, Southern Chin State, were forced to supply wood of 75 cubic feet per block. The defaulter Hemapi block had to pay the fine of Ks. 60000 to Major Zaw Tun, the battalion commander of Sinletwa. The Battalion, Light Infantry Battalion LIB 538, issued an order that each of the 18 blocks in the surrounding area must saw the wood and send to him.