"Rhodedendron News" Volume XV, Issue I, January-February 2012

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Arbitrary Taxation & Extortion Page 3-4: • School Textbooks Forcibly Sold to Students • Families in Hakha Demanded Money for ?Chin State Day? Celebration • Land Forcibly Seized from Local for Dam Construction... Other Human Rights Violations Page 05-07: • Lungler Buddhist Monk Abbot Accused of Bootlegging • Two Chin Activists Confirmed Released • Govt. Medical Staff Ignored Patients after Argument • College Lecturer Accused of Using Racial Slur against Chin Students... Humanitarian Situation Page 08-11: • More Humanitarian Aid Likely to Flow into Chin State • Chin Extends Donation to Help Kachin Refugees • Food Shortages to Worsen in Southern Chin State: UN • 10 School Toilets Built, Clothes Donated to Children in Falam... Event & Accident Page 12-13: • 2 Killed, 9 Injured in Car Accident in Chin State • Singers from Burma to Celebrate Chin National Day in Malaysia • CNF to Launch Chin-Govt Preliminary ?Peace-talk? DVD... Situation of Refugees Page 14-16: • Chin Refugees Detained for Theft & Rape in Malaysia • Delhi Chin Refugees Face Violent Assaults by Local Indians • Malaysian Govt to Conduct Major Crackdown on Undocumented Workers • Chin Learning Center Won First Prize for Neighbourhood Cleaning Competition in Malaysia... Chin State Government & Chin National Front Page 16 -18: • First Day of Peace Talks: Agreeing to Disagree • Breakthrough: CNF Signed Ceasefire Deal with Govt. • Text of the Unofficial Translation of CNF Ceasefire Agreement... Opinion Page 19: • Union Day or Dominion Day? Revisiting the Spirit of Panglong... Poem Page 20: • I Miss You, Mom... Poem & Cartoon Page 20 • Cartoon by Kocik

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Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO)

Date of Publication: 

2012-02-00

Date of entry: 

2013-06-06

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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