TABLE OF CONTENTS: ARBITRARY ORDERS & POWER ABUSED: * Village Headman House And Huts Of Villagers Burned Down By SPDC * Mother And Infant Child Arrested * SPDC Arrest People Who Refuse To Serve As Village Council Chairmen * SPDC Prohibits Headmen From Resigning From Their Posts * SPDC Soldiers Burn A House * SPDC Authorities Close Down Orphanage School * SPDC Ordered Village Self Supported Middle School to Close * Unfair Tuition Fees Demanded * SPDC Force Local People To Sell Timber Planks At Unfair Price * Burmese Army Collect Rations From Villagers * Burmese Army Demand Chicken From Villagers * Police Arrest Cross-Border Trader And Confiscate Goods * SPDC Lieutenant Took 200,000 Kyats From A Woman Trader * Military Officials Need Permission To Go To Capital * SPDC Ignore 23 Deaths Caused By The Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever... ARBITRARY KILLING & RECRUITMENT: * Village Headman Killed, Two Forcibly Recruited As Soldiers * Villagers Forced To Attend Two Months Military Training * Local Residents Forced To Take Militia Training... FORCED LABOR: * Castor Oil Plantation Project A Problem For The People * SPDC Authorities Fine People Who Fail To Plant Castor Oil * SPDC Re-Issues Order For Castor Oil Plantation * Land Confiscation Continues For Jathropas Plantation * Death Sentence To People Opposing Jathropa Plantation... RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: * SPDC Authorities Collect Money From Local Residence For Buddhist Water Festival * Fifty Households To Be Evicted For Monastery Expansion * Land Confiscated For Buddhist Monastery... REFUGEE: * Chin Workers Arrested In Malaysian Immigration Raid... MILESTONE NEWS & EVENTS: * Tahan Market Reduced To Ashes * Chin Student Union Of North America Formed * Gathering Strength: Exiled Chin Christians Merged For A Joint Mission * Chin Community Of Germany Hosted Chinland Constitution Consultative Meetings * The Chin Community In Norway Successfully Hosted Chinland Constitution Consultative Meeting * ENC Goes Online * CNF Ratifies Anti-Landmine Treaty... OPINION: * Reconciling Identity And Integration (By Bianca Son: Mang Khan Cing)... BACK COVER POEM: * A Bedbug (By Van Biak Thang)