"Rhododendron News" Volume XI, No. I, January ? February 2008

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Table of Contents: Editorial: * Cross-Border Aid Needed to Address Humanitarian Crisis in Chinland... Human Rights Situations in Chinland: * Forced Labor for Bootlegging * Illegal Funds Collected from Chin Public * Unfair Tax and Restriction Imposed on Chin Farmers * Money Extorted to Finance Militia Training * Town Residents Forced to Buy and Plant Tea Seed * Corrupt Forestry Officer Imposed Excessive Fines on Villagers * Officials Auctioned Off Seized Goods for Personal Profit * Extortion Rampage * New Recruitment Drive Targets High School Students * Burmese police recruit under age youth in western Burma... Refugee Situation: * 45 Chin Perished at Sea * Rela Burns Down Chin Camps in Malaysia * Local Youth Assault Chin Asylum Seeker in New Delhi... News & Events: * CHRO Begins Annual Advocacy Mission * Total Oil Urged to Pull Out of Burma * Chin Marks National Day with Protest * Burmese Regime Bans Chin Historical Day * Ethnic Alliance Warns Constitutional Boycott... Facts & Argument: * Burma?s Referendum: Why Indonesia Matters... Back Cover Poem: * Once Voice (Chin national Day)... Editorial.

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Chin Human Rights Organization

Date of Publication: 

2008-02-00

Date of entry: 

2008-03-24

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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