"Rhododendron News" Volume XIV, Issue VI, November-December 2011

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Arbitrary Taxation & Extortion: • Villagers Forced to Buy Calendars of 64th Chin State Day • Money Collected from Students for Football Matches • Soldiers Forcibly Seized Medicines and Cosmetic Products • Army Soldiers Detained Chin Trader for 600,000 Kyats • Money Forcibly Collected for Various Govt Funds • Burmese Soldiers Forfeited Local 8 Buffaloes... Forced Labour: • Forced Labour, Extortion Persist in Chin State • Chin Villagers Forced as Porters by Army Soldiers • Six Villages Forced to Grow Three Acres of Jatropha • Coercion Continues under New Govt in Chin State... Freedom of Religion: • Burma Still Violates Religious Freedom under New Govt: CSW... Other Human Rights Violations: • Army Officer Forced Village Heads to Attend Meeting • Local School Principal Accused of Corruption... Humanitarian Situation: • Govt Likely to End Poppy Cultivation in Chin State • Disease Outbreak Sickens Over 80 Villagers, 47 Seriously... Situation of Refugees: • Registration for Refugees in Malaysia Officially Announced • Scotland?s Photo Exhibition Reveals Struggle of Chin Refugees in Delhi • Alarm over Chin Refugees? Involvement in Violent Assaults • Chin Refugees Arrested in Malaysian Crackdowns... Chin State Government: • CNF to Meet with Chin State Govt in January in Capital Hakha • Conference Endorsed Peace Talks between CNF and Chin State Govt... Opinion: • Burma Must Repeal Repressive, Outdated and Unconstitutional Colonial Era Laws • Without Diversity, There Can Be No Unity... Poem: • A Poem of Amicable Contradiction... Poem & Cartoon • Cartoon by Vapual, and Kocik

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Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO)

Date of Publication: 

2011-12-00

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2012-01-18

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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