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CHIN NATIONAL FRONT STATEMENT



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               Position Statement of the Chin National Front  
                                   on 
                The Torture and Murder of Salai Sang Hlun, 
           Chairman of the Central Justice Committee of the CNF 
 
1. Democracy and human rights are often violated in any country ruled by  
dictators. Peace, security, and cultural heritage are also threatened by  
those dictators. In such a country, ethnic minorities lose their funda-
mental human rights, national identity and all their possessions. After 
losing them,they have to suffer from untold troubles under constant 
fear. 
 
Over decades, ethnic people including Chin nationals have been oppressed  
and ill-treated by the military despots and their stooges in Burma.  The  
national culture of the Chin people and their own land have also been  
annihilated. 
 
2.  In order to be free from the brutal tyranny, to restore democracy 
and human rights, and to preserve its own national identity, the Chin 
National Front is determined resolutely to cooperate closely with any 
democratic party, peace-loving people and nation.   We believe that a 
democratic country such as India will stand firmly at the side of the 
oppressed people and advocate the restoration of democracy and human 
rights.  Chin National Front has been working together with India for 
almost ten years. 
 
3.  The government of India, however, violated the fundamental human  
rights, and is, like ASEAN nations, supporting the dictatorship of the  
SLORC by enhancing its border trade and relationship with the military  
regime in Burma.  
 
4.  The most shocking and alarming act of the Indian authorities is the  
torture and killing of Salaing Sang Hlun, Chairman of the Central 
Justice Committee of the Chin National Front. He was arrested by Indian 
Patrol Police on March 31, 1995 at Parva, Mizoram, while working 
together with the Indian Government. Then he was handed over to the 
Assam Rifles, detained for 23 days without any legal proceedings, and 
killed in Assam Rifle's Camp in Aizawl on April 23, 1995.  Thawng Mang 
and Kung Ling, who were with him for medication purpose, were arrested 
as well and their fate and whereabouts remained unknown. 
 
5.  India, well known as the world's largest democracy, is practicing 
the "constructive engagement" policy of ASEAN and collaborating for 
mutual interest with the military junta in Burma which never respect 
human dignity and human value, thus the arch-enemy of democracy.  
Moreover, its action of torture and massacre of ethnic minority who are 
struggling for freedom, fundamental human rights, and democracy, are 
completely contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 
progress of the world democratic system.  
 
The Chin National Front will firmly stand and strive its best for 
freedom, human rights, democracy, and peace, and wage the struggle on 
unswervingly against any government or party which abuses human rights 
and obstructs the democratic principal and goal. 
 
Central Committee					RE:1201/02/kha-ma-ta 
Chin National Front					Date: 10 May 1995 
Supreme Headquarters 
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