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Chin Miphunpi ni le kawl ruah nak

Tu kum Feb20 cu Chin miphun ni (Chin National Day) a voi 58 a tlinnak ding a si cang. Chin miphun dihlak nih kanmah le kan rak umnak cio in, kan miphun dawt nak le kan ram dawt nak lungthin he urhsunh ngai in kan hman cionak hnga kan tuanbia nih an kan fial.Kan Chin Miphun ni kong kan chim tik ah hin, Kawl kong le Mirang an kong hi pehtlai nak an neih caah chim chih a hau in a um.

Independence le Mirang an ruah nak

Mirang nih anrak kan uk lio ah hin tlangcung mi pawl hi India mi hna le Kawl(Burmese) mi hna he kan khuasak ning kan nunphung le kan khua ruahnak hna a dan hi fiang te in anrak kan hmuh caah a dang tein uknak dan an kan ser piak i Chin hill regulation Acts in anrak kan uk. Cu ve ban tuk in independence zonghi a dang in Kawl le India he fonh loin pek anrak kan duh. An phan mi cu hi tlangcung um mi pawl hi India le Kawl mi hna kut tangah an tla te sual lai ti phan nak a rak kan neih piak chung cang caah a si. Kan pupa hna nih luat zawkzawk an duh ruangah kawl he hmunkhat ah rak kan pe ko tiin min an rak thut cang caah independence cu Kawl mi hna he hmunkhat ah pek kan rak si.

Independence le Kawl ruah nak

Kawl mi hna cu hi lio ah hin tlangcung mi hna he tahchunh ah cun tam pi hmai lei caan hi an rak hmuh khawh cang i zei tin dah hmailei pi tiangah tlangcung mipawl hi kan uk khawh hna lai timi ruah khawhnak hi anrak ngei cang ti mi hi a fiang ngai. Kawlram in, Kawlram pumpi i hruai nak dun le dan konghe pehtlai in U ChianThun cu India ah a va kal lio ah hin, India first Prime Minister Neru le Ambacker(India consititution tuah tu) hna he an i tong i Neru ni bia a rawnh mi cu tlangcung mipawl hi rights ve pe tuk hna hlah uh ti hi a si. India kan zoh a si ah cun, Naga leader Phizaw nih India hlan ah Naga independence hi a rak phuang hmasa ko nain Arm-force hmang in a tuk than i a tangah a chiah than. Cun a tu northeast vial te khi a tu tiang khi “Arm Acts” ti mi uknak tangah a uh hna. Cu caah cun hi lio ah hin kan pupa hna nih hin Panglong ah min thut lo in rak um hna hmanh seh law, Naga le Karen ban tuk in hriam nam thazang in anrak kan thuk than ko lai ti mi hi a fiang ngai.

Hi lio ah hin tlangcung mi a si mi hna Sian, Kachin, Chin hna cu kan mah phung te a rak si mi ramuk uknak in rak i hruai a si i hi uknak a um chungah hin cun fawi tein tlangcung mihna sinah hin kan duh ning poh in kan lut kho lai lo i an cungah nawl kan ngei kho lai lo tihi anrak ruah cang. Cu caah cun tlangcung mi nih kan i uknak origin kha hrawh ding mi hi hmasa ah an i tim.
A ngai te kan ti a si ah cun Kawl mi hna hi Mirang nih a dang tein independence pek dingah a timh mi hna anrak si ko na in, tlangcung mipawl he hmunkhat ah an kan pek lo ah cun hmailei ah kan tangah chiah nak ding caah thilhar a si lai ti hi an rak i fiang.

Cu caah cun Mirang nih kan Laitlang anrak luh lio i an thluak kha an kan hman hnawh ve riangmang i kan nih cu a then ding kan si lo lungrual tein hmunkhat te ah kan um ti ding a si, Mirang nih a rak kan then mi hi a pawi ngai a tu cu lungrual te in kan um ti a hau ti lei in anrak sawilem khawh hna. 1947,January ah hin U Ba khan le Pu Vom Tu Maung hna huai hawt nak in laitlang pum pi an rak tlawn i sawilemnak an rak tuah. Cun 1947 Feb12 ah khin Sian , Kachin,Chin timi upa pawl zong i tel ve in Union of Burma ah hmunkhat teah um ti dingin Panglong khua ah minthutnak an rak nei.

Hi ka ah hin anrak telh chih mi pakhat te cu, hi Union ah hin lungtlin lo sual ah cun kum hra hnu ah chuah nak nawl nan ngei ti nak a si i, hi zong hi tha tein kan zoh fel a si ah cun, hngakchia ban tuk in, cu thil cu kan cawk piak te lai ti i va hlen ta duak khi a si ko. Kum hra hnu ah cun zei tin hmanh in hriam nam tha zang zawng in an chuak kho hlei ti lai lo ti hi anrak theih tuk cang. Cun hi hnu ah hin Thi-Lin khua ah,1947 March 4-6 kar ah Chin-Bama chit-ci-zi an rak tuah than. Cun hi hnu ah hin tlangcung mi si ning theih nak ding le dai te in lem khawh nak ding caah 1947 April ah hin Memyo khua ah tlangcung mi dawt hlet tu commission anrak dirh.

Cu ti cun caan cu a hawng kal deuh i tlangcung mi vial te he hmunkhat ah Kawlram pumpi independence cu 1948 January 4 ah pek kan rak si. Hi lio ah hin cun Kawl nih kan lai upa pawl thinlung hi a rak cawh dih cang i a tei tuk cang hna. Cun Chin affairs council nih 1948 January22 ah Laitlang ngia thlai tu um ding in hnatlaknak a rak neih i,cu cu January 28 ah a voi 7 nak MP (Vuanci)pawl meeting ah a thehluh i cu ti cun Feb 5 ah Laitlang ngiathlai tu commission cu an rak dirh.

Hi ngiathlai tu pawl nih ramuk bawi hna le mipi hna he zei maw zat itonnak le bia ruah tinak kan laitlang hmun dangdangah a ngeih hnu ah Laitlang khuapi Falam khua ah 1948 Feb 19-22 tiang mipi 5000 renglo nih i ton nak an ngei. Hi conference pi a ni 20 nak ni, ruah ti ding a tlar 4 nak bia khiah nak in Ramukbawi uknak cu kal tak in mipi nih thim mi democracy system in i hruai ding ah lungrual te in votes in bia an rak khiah. Cu ni cu 1950 kum ah khin Chin Council Affairs nih Chin Miphun ni ti ding in hna tlaknak a rak ngei. Cun Chin Miphunpi ni cu 1951 Feb 20 ah Midat khua ah a voi khatnak rak tuah a si.

A si na in Laimiphun hna nih Feb ni 20 ni cu kum1951 hnu ah, kan ni sungbik mi ah kan van chiah tik ah, kan miphun dawtnak, kan ram dawtnak le laimiphun kan dih lak lungrual nak kan i lak nak le tei nak kan hmuh ni ban tuk in kan i tleih tik ah, kawl hna an i timh nak he cun a dang tuk cang. Cu caah cun Chin miphun ni ti lo in Chin Division day tiah nan ti lai tiin kum 1957-66 kar ah khin an kan ti than i, kan upa pawl nih an rak duh lo.A ngai te kan ti a si ah cun Chin division day cu 1947 Set24 ah Kawlram pumpi i hruai nak dun le dan an rak tuah mi in a rak chuak mi a si ii Feb 20 he cun a hlat ngai mi a si. Cu hnu ah an i thawh than ii Chin State day ti uh tiah an kan ti than hawi. Hi Chin state a rak chuah nak kan zoh than a si ah cun, 1974 January 3 ah a thar in Kawl nih an ser than mi dun le dan in a chuak mi arak si i Feb ni 20 he cun a hlat ngai mi a si thiam.Cun hi ni 20 ni thengte i hman ding zong hi an kan duh piak hawi ti lo.

Hi ti hin Kawl nih kan miphun le nunphung hna hi a phunphun in hrawh le hloh ding in an i zuam peng i ni hin ni tiang hi a si. Kawl nih a phunphun in an kut tangah chiah nak dingah an kan zuam nak thawngin a rak chuak mi si ko hmanh seh law, kannih nih cun lungthiang tein lungrual nak in tei nak kan hmuh ni tiah kan pawm i kan i tleih. Hi nih hin kan chungah lungrual nak le dawt nak kan mi phunchungah a karh ter chin. Kachin miphun hna cu anmah Kachinphun a si mi DUWA ti mi nih ramuk uk nak in an rak uk hna i, Kawlram independence hnu ah kawl nih fawite in an lung an rak tei hna i, mipi ihruai nak in an kal cawlh. Kachin State day ti mi in ni hin ni ah an hman ve. Cun Sian miphun hna cu Feb ni 5 ah meeting an rak tuah pi ve hna i, hi ni ah hin Sian pawl cu Sian kan phung ning in kan i uk lai an ti. Hi ni hi Sian miphun ni tiah an ti. A si na in Kawl nih sizungzi an tuah than hna i, Feb 7 ah mipi thim mi uk nak in i hruai ding in hna tlak nak an ngei than, cu ni cu Sian State Day tiah ni hin ni tiang hi an tuah ve. Hi ti hin Tlangcung mi hna nih miphun ni kan ti mi hna hi kawl nih an duh lo i, State day ah thlen piak pet an kan timh. State Day ti mi cu a ngai te kan ti a si ah cun kawl cozah nih pek mi uknak in a ra mi a si i, kan Miphun ni ti mi cu an mah nih pek khawh mi a si lo. Hi vawlei ah miphun pakhat kan si nak kan mah te in kan ifiang nak in a ra mi a si.

Chin miphun ni kan caah a that nak.

Hi kan miphun ni kan sunhsak le kan hman nak thawing in:-

1) Kan kar ah dawtnak le lungrual nak a karh ter chin ii kan miphun le kan ram caah i pek duhnak thinlung a kan ngeih ter.

2)Chan he a tlak ti lo mi uknak kha fawi tein kan kal tak khawh.

3)Chin miphun hna hi mah tein a rak i uk mi kan si kha a langh ter.

4) Hi vawlei pi ah hin phunglam le ramri ngei in khua a sa mi miphun pakhat kan si ve nak kha a langh ter.

Cu caah cun kan nih Chin miphun dih lak nih hi Feb ni 20 ni kan sunhsak nak thawngin a ra lai ding mi chan vialte hna chung zongah tei nak an kan hmuh ter kho tu thinlung a thawk nak hrampi a si.

Ralrinnak pek

Hi kan tuan bia nih ralrin nak an kan pek mi cu:-

1. Chin National Day in Chin State day ah thlen lo ding,
2. Kum chiar te Chin miphun a si mi poh nih tlawlh loin sunsak ngai in hman pengding,
3. Hi hna hlei ah,a tu Federal Democracy i timh lio ah, hlanlio Feb 12 i Panglong khua ah i tonnak an rak neih ban tuk in ton nak a um tik ah, zalen nak le chuah nak nawl lawng si lo in, a bik in ralkap zeizat in dah i thawh cio ding ti mi le MPs milu hna i rualremh than a herh timi hna hi an kan fiang ter than.

A tu ah, hi ralrinnak pathum nak tiang hi tha te in kan kal pi khawh lo a si sual i, kan moral spirit hna a dawr sual a si ah cun, hmailei ah kan miphun le kan ram cu kan kilh kamh kho bal lai lo.

A Brief Account of Chin National Day and the Chin people

A Brief Account of Chin National Day and the Chin people

The emergence of the Chin National Day: - Chin National Day derived from the particular day February 20, 1948 on which a resolution was adopted to replace the hereditary ruling system of the Chieftainship or aristocracy in the Chin territory with the democratic election system of administration in majority consent of the Chieftains or aristocrats and their subjects at the conference held at Falam, attended by delegates of all parts of the Chin territory on Burma side.

February 20 was therefore made in the Union Parliament of the UB to be an official holiday as Chin National Day within the Chin territory by the Chin Affairs Council led by Pu Vum Tu Mawng as Minister and Pu Mang Tung Nung as Parliamentary Secretary of the Chin Affairs Ministry of the government of the Union of Burma (UB)

The Chin National Day has been thus observed since then every year in all the Chin societies everywhere even outside the Chin territory and the UB. It is known that the Prime Minister and the President of the UB usually sent facilitations to the Minister of the Chin Affairs on the occasions of Chin National Day during the early days of independence of the UB under Parliamentary democracy.

So the Chin Communities in the Greater Washington DC Area and the world around are now preparing to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Chin National Day February 20, 2008. Washington DC Chin Community and some other communities will celebrate on February 16th on weekend in advance and others may celebrate on later days closed to it for the convenience of every one, as we are not to have day off from work as a holiday abroad like we have in our homeland.

Chin people in diasporas around the world: -The Chin population in the US including Greater Washington DC Area and around the world are mainly those who fled the mother homeland, the Union of Burma (UB) from the persecution of the Burmese military regime to Malaysia, India, Guam and US mainland and to other several countries. They are given resettlements as political refugees and asylees by the Government of the USA and also by other governments concern in great compassion. The Chin people everywhere around the world are so grateful to the government and the people of USA and to other governments and people concerned.

Thus they are now in diasporas all over the countries in North America, Europe, Australia, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Singapore and Bangladesh and still there are some whom we cannot tell their where about.

Position, size of Chin State and the population in the UB: -The population of the Chin people in the UB is estimated to be one and half millions of which half of the population be in the mainland Chin State which is located on the Northwest of the UB bordering North East India. It is not less than 14000 Square miles in area, a bit larger than Maryland plus Connecticut in US and larger than many independent sovereign countries in its definite clear-cut boundary. Half of their population is mainly in Magwe Division, Sagaing Division of Burma proper and in Arakan State though some are still scattering in other regions of the UB.
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Back ground history of CND in brief: - The territory of the Chin people was ruled by the native Chieftains and landlords in many principalities before the British annexed it as an independent territory outside India and Burma to be a part of the British empire in 1895. The whole population in the territory was controlled together by the same native religion, the belief of which was very close to the belief in the Christianity. The native religion believes in life after death and every human being to have soul at death and those souls of the deaths to rest at a place known in several different names in different dialects of the Chin language like for example Mithikhua /Misikhua etc.

The similar faith they all have in their native religion also molded many similar affinities among them that makes people beyond their common frontier to see them as a people. They all accept that they have similar affinities in common today though they identified themselves in several names.

It is the closeness in their belief in native religion to the Christianity that all territories in which the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 was applied in the British Empire converted in full to Christianity in a matter of one century now since the Christian missionaries from America and England came to the Chin country in the late 19th century AD. The territories in which the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 was once enforced today are Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur Hills in India, Chin State, Naga Hills or Khamti District in Sagaing Division in the Union of Burma and the Chittagong Hills Tract of Bangladesh.

Today, they have transformed their native religion to Christianity. So 80% of the over whelming majority of the Chin population in the Chin State have all been now Christians to be the only Christian State in the 14 provinces of the UB. So is the Christian population not less than 80% in Nagaland and Mizoram respectively as the only two Christian States in India too. Thus they still have a common religion in Christianity as they did in the past in their native religion.

The British annexed India round about in 1760 and Burma in 1885. They discovered a vast territory outside India and Burma inhabited by a people known as Kuki/Naga from India and Chins from Burma. The British invaded the Chin territory since 1888 as the Chin rulers refused to allow them to construct land route that will connect British India and British Burma through the Chin territory.

The Chin rulers and the invading British military commanders concluded several agreements in peace talks that the ancient traditional hereditary ruling system of aristocracy would be allowed to retain and the Chieftains and landlords who ruled the many principalities would be recognized according to their usual ranks and usual areas in which they respectively ruled before the British arrival. That peace agreement was drafted and adopted as the law known as Chin Hills Regulations 1896. T he definitions of “Chins” was provided in the Chin Hills Regulations 1896 as Chins includes Lushais, Kukis, Nagas and Chins in the Chin Hills and Chins in the adjoining areas of the Chin Hills and any persons who practice Chins culture and language.

The British thus declared the Chin territory as a part of the British Empire and enforced the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 in all the Chin territory though it was added in pieces to Assam, Bengal and Burma provinces. Those provincial governors ruled Chins in those pieces of divided Chin territory under their respective provinces separately with the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 outside British India and British Burma till independence of India and Burma 1947/1948.

When British India and British Burma were to get Independence, the Chin territory on Burma side with the territories of Kachin and Shans which were together known as the territories of Burma Frontier Areas (BFA) was to be given to the UN Trusteeship by the British as it was no longer to rule them as colonies under the UN Charter Chapter 11, Article 73. The reason was this BFA was annexed by the British as independent territories outside India and Burma.

But because of the promise given by General Aung San that the BFA territories respectively should also be in self governing territories in the new Union to be formed in federal, the Chin territory that was occupied and annexed from the British Burma military front signed on February 12, 1947 an Agreement known as Panglong Agreement with the leader of the Burmese/Burman territory General Aung San and other leaders of the territories of Shan and Kachin to be all in self governing territories in the newly formed Union of Burma in federalism.

Since the hereditary ruling system in the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 was abolished on February 20, 1948, the Chin State which was then known as Chin Hills needs to adopt a new law with which to rule.

So hereditary ruling system in the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 was amended in a new law transferring many provisions from the Chin Hills Regulation 1896 to the new amended law and adopted it in the Union Parliament of the UB as Chin Special Division Act 1948.

Thus the Chieftains and their Councils were substituted with Circle Chairmen and Circle Councils. They were elected by the population in their respective Circle areas (Tlangkulh in some Chin dialetcs) according to the new Law, Chin Special Division Act 1948. It has been enforced in the CSD throughout the period under the parliamentary rule of the UB since 1948. The Circle Chairmen, in an administrative Subdivision/township became township advisory council to the civil service administrators under the Chin Affairs Minister.

The Chin Affairs Minister was the head of the Ministry of Chin affairs as a cabinet minister or a member of Council of Ministers led by the Prime Minister of the UB. The Chin Ministry was an interim arrangement before the Chin people were ready to form their State Legislative Assembly and Government at their convenient timing.

This temporary arrangement showed that the Affairs of the Chin State and its people were under the Burmese Prime Minister. The reason was he could appoint any one as the Minister of Chin Affairs out of the 14 Members of Parliament elected from the electoral constituencies of the Chin Special Division. That means that anyone who followed the Prime Minster best was to be the Minister of the Chin Ministry.

In the Chin Ministry were the Minister of the Chin Affairs as the head of the Ministry and a Parliamentary Secretary and a Chairman of the Chin Affairs Council. The three of them were elected by the Chin Affairs Council elected by the people of the Chin State as Members of Parliament of the UB. The Minister, the Parliamentary Secretary and Chairman of Chin Affairs Council were included in the 14 MPs.

But the Circle Area Chairman ruling system, which was in democratic elected system, has been abolished by the Burmese military regime and Chin Special Division Act 1948 is used only in civil suits in the Chin State now and no further amendment has been made to update it. Chin Hills Regulation 1896 also is still used in civil suits in the Naga Hills or Khamti District of Sagaing Division in the UB with no amendment to update it since its last amendment in 1927.

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The lost of human dignity under the Burmese military regime repressive rule: The timing for the Chin territory to have the Legislative Assembly and government of its own as a State was decided in the Parliament of the UB in 1962. But General Ne Win over threw the Constitutional government in that moment as he was against the Union of Burma to be in federalism and established rigid unitary form of constitution in one party dictatorship system which the Burmese military today is still holding high.

The whole program to amend the Union constitution in federalism in 1962 was totally stopped. Picking up the parliament decision, the territories of Chin, Arakan and Mon were given the name “State” only in name in the fake constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma 1974 along with other previous four States . T ht 1974 Socialist constitution has been also abolished during the pro democratic up rising of the whole country in 1988 by the ruling Burmese military government.

The Burmese military regime is now launching ethnic cleansing program in many ways on the Chin State and in the Naga Hills with no proper law in dictatorship to oppress the Chin population causing them all sort of problems and sufferings.

The Chin people are fighting against the Burmese military dictatorship in nonviolent means along with other democratic forces of the UB for democracy and self determination in which the Chin people can have self rule within their territory as a constituent state of the federal Union and shared rule in common cause and common interest with other constituent states of the federal Union of Burma.

The non-violent means is the strategy of the leaders of the democratic forces of the Union of Burma in National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma(NCUB) and The National Council of the Union of Burma(NCGUB) though it might not be the best way to fight against this brutal Burmese military regime. It might rather be adopted as the last possible strategy due to not enough international material support. The UN cannot give effective support to the cause due to some veto power nations in the UNSC.

The non violent strategy is effective to some extent as it could make the brutal Burmese military unable to adopt the constitution of the Union of Burma to make the constitution of the country in rigid Unitary form in one party system as the military regime has planned. It can put it at bay making it fail to establish its military regime as a legal constitutional government.

But restoration of democracy and self determination to all the constituent territories or to remove the fascist regime from power so far is in failure showing that non violent strategy is not effective enough to remove or change such brutal and inhuman regime. The regime increases its repressive oppression more in launching ethnic cleansing program and genocide causing more suffering especially on the minority non-Burman indigenous people. They are treating them like animals letting them live and die like animals and insects devoid of human dignity under this brutal and cruel regime.

The ability of fully armed Chin soldiers in ceaseless supply of arms and ammunitions: In the earlier days of the UB independence, 1950s-60s, the constitutional government of the UB was in control of only six miles perimeter of the Union territory only to be known as Rangoon government. The reason was the rest of the country beyond Rangoon was under the control of the multi insurgencies as many battalions of the Union government armed forces went under ground against the constitutional government. It was therefore mainly the six Chin battalions who fought against the multi-insurgencies in strict loyalty to the constitution of the Union which has amendment provisions and secession rights under the Panglong agreement which the Chin leaders signed with the territories of the Burmese, Kachins and Shans to form a federal Union all of which to be in self governing territories.

The Chin people, born strong as fighters on the mountainous and hilly topography landscape, are by nature good fighters. So only the Six Chin Battalions formed of only Chin soldiers and Chin commanders in victory cleared out all the multi insurgencies that controlled all over the UB much earlier than what the Union government expected in a short period. They lost one of their commanders in the battle ground as a martyr of the Union like General Sung San and his cabinets and one of the Chin soldiers was awarded the highest military gallantry medal of the Union known as Aung San Thuri-ya alive though it was usually given in post mortem equivalent to Victoria Cross (VC) in UK and the Congressional Medal of Honor in US.

In stead of promoting the Chin commanders and the Chin soldiers in victory to higher ranks and better living, the Union government in alarming to see the fighting ability of the six Chin Battalions all dismantled the Chin battalions transferring the Chin soldiers to other newly formed multinational armed forces and their commanders all being stopped further promotion from Colonel rank or some Chin commanders being transferred to civil service or being forced to retire. Under this military regime the Chins especially Christians are no longer promoted to the rank higher than Captain or Major rank in blatant religious and racial discrimination. No Chins except those who are kidnapped only join the Burmese military by force now.

The Chin people fighting ability under the British: The Chin guerilla forces trained and armed by the British during WWII could repelled the Japanese troops that attempted to pass through the Chin territory to invade India from Burma front. Had the Japanese entered into the Ganges and Brahmaputra flat plain of the Indian territory, it would not be easy for the British India Provincial government and the Allied forces to fight back in the flat plain without losing many lives and wealth even if they could repel the invading Japanese army from India.

The Chin guerilla forces as the Western Chin Levy therefore saved them many lives and wealth for which the British Governor of British Burma expressed his gratitude to the Chin people that India and the Allied nations owed debt of gratitude to the Chin people for that contribution they made to the Indian provincial government and the allied nations. We hope that the people of India and their government and all the allied nations could pay heed to day to the war remarked written by a British governor then. (Economic life of the Central Chin Tribes by HNC Stevenson)

A British soldier Surgeon Major Lee Quisne also was awarded Victoria Cross (VC) at a battle of the invading British forces fighting against the Chin resistant forces that fought very fiercely against the invading British armed forces in May 1888 at Siallum fort in the Chin territory. The fort is now marked as a historical monument spot to be visited by interested people.

The disarmed Chin people: The Chin people and the Burmese people mutually recognize each other traditionally as two distinct people much different in cultures and languages. More over, the territories they inhabit are different as the high land above 600-10,000 ft above sea level where as the Burmese territory is mostly flat land below 500 ft above sea level. So the situation in the two territories is much different apart. The Burmese therefore know nothing about the highland condition to where they have never been due to difficult communications as it is not a familiar way of of life for the plain people.

The Burmese military regime seized the Chin territory with the force of arms against the will of the Chin people in 1962 at the time the constitutional government was over thrown. Thus it totally has stopped the Chin territory to form their own State Legislative Assembly and the State government for the State internal affairs since then.

All governmental departments in the Chin State have been under the control of the Burmese military officials by force to dictate with no proper laws and suppressed the Chin people in lawlessness against humanity. They stopped thus teaching Chin language in all the schools of the Chin territory, which is blatantly a cultural genocide. They neglect building infrastructure like transport motor road and electricity in the Chin territory leaving the Chin state as a barren land with no transport communication, no airport, no train and no motor road and no electricity. They are deprived of all radios and TV services to run their cultural and educational programs in full time announcing in their various dialects of the Chin language.

Those not worthy of mentioning few miles even not all weather road of muddy and dusty roads and some feeble electricity in some few towns are all un useable by the public as they are mainly for the convenience of the civil and military operation to better control the Chin civil population. It is ruled as an enemy territory of foreign land to destroy their whole existence as a people.

The Chin people are now fighting on front line along with other democratic forces of the UB against this fascism to restore democracy and self determination in the whole Union. All democratic forces and the Chin people have felt now that non violent means of fighting is not effective to fight such brutal and inhuman regime of the Burmese military fascism. The worst for the Chin people has been that they have been disarmed of every thing. First of all they have been disarmed of political power as they have been blocked to form Chin State Legislative assembly and Chin State government of their own to do their state home work.

They have been disarmed of infrastructures like all sort of transport communications and electricity without which no meaningful progress could be made in a country, The persecution on religious, racial and political ground has been unabated as the majority of the Burmese population is Buddhism and the Chin territory is in total Christianity. So it is so horrible to tolerate the severe repressiveness against humanity except to seek freedom at risk as a retreat to fight back from abroad is the only option and alternative or to die in long sufferings as it is the disarmed human nature at the gun point of the enemy with full arms.

We know that there had been many political movements that formed exiled governments to fight back the occupying enemies that had occupied their homelands during WWII. The democratic forces of the Union could form legitimate government with the elected members of Parliament in exile to fight back this Burmese military regime effectively if the democratic friendly governments who support the cause of democracy give enough support to the democratic cause of the Union of Burma.

So being there is nothing the Chin people can do disarmed now, the Chin National Day also is ordered and forced to change it to Chin State Day though the state only in name was given on January 4 1974. Many Chin people in intolerable of this racial, religion and political persecution and oppression of the Burmese military regime fled their home land in great risks as the only choice and options in thousands as refugees to several countries Malaysia, India and several other countries. We have nothing to celebrate today under the rule of this Burmese military fascist regime.

But we cannot forget to celebrate the day February 20, as the Chin National Day wherever we are for it was the achievement of our fore fathers that made the dawning of the fresh new days of democracy to the Chin people 60 years ago on February 20, 1948.

We therefore need the support and help of the governments and people of the world around in our struggle to fight against this brutal and restore democracy and self determinations in all the territories that constitute the Union of Burma. We are now temporarily in diasporas before we liberate our country and return reclaiming our mother land as its pride citizens.

May the Chin people achieve democratic self-determination the earliest possible! And
May the Chinland, its people and the Chin National Day live long!

The Chin State

Chin State is locates in Southeast Asia and lies between the longitude 92.15E, and in between the latitude 18N and 27.30N. Bangladesh is to its Southwest, Manipur State in India is to its Northwest, China to its North, Sagaing Division of Myanmar to its East and Arakan State is to its South. The size of Chin State is slightly smaller than Switzerland. Chin State is rich of natural flora and fauna. Chin state has a mild hot wet climate. Almost 90 % of Chin people are Christians. The population is estimated as half a million. Chin people are aboriginal inhabitants of Chinland for hundreds of years. Chin people are distinctive nationality with it own culture, religious, politics and literacy. After the British occupation of Burma under it empire in 1885, Chinland was also annexed under British Empire in 1895. As the leaders of Chin people agreed to take Independent together with Burmese leaders, Chin people joined Burmese leaders in January 1948 and accepted Independent from British Empire. Unfortunately Union of Burma has been misruled by successive Burmese Buddhist rulers and Chin State was most suppressed under Burmese dictatorial rule since Independent until today. That’s why we the Chin people know that we do not get Independent until today since the Chin people are discriminated and systematically enslave under Burmese rulers, worse than the British occupiers.

The name of Burma was changed into Myanmar by the current military government in 1993 in order to eclipse all ethnic groups into Myanmarization. Burma has 52 million populations in which 4 millions only are Christians, 4 millions Muslims, Hindu and others different religions from Buddhism. The majority are Buddhists. From 1962 until today, Burma has been ruled by military dictators and run the country without constitution and laws. Martial law is the only vehicle the military regime has to drive 52 millions for more than four decades. Even Buddhist monks tucked pistols under their armpits and lure Christian children in Chin State publicly to join Buddhism. Poverty is the tool for the military regime to recruit poor civilians and Christians to expand military power in the disguise. As Chin nationals are most discriminated under military regime in Myanmar, sixty thousands Chin refugees fled to neighboring India and 27000 Chin refugees are now in Malaysia. In order to get into Malaysia, most Chin individual refugee have to sell all their properties and even borrowed large amount of money to pay to agents who will take them into Malaysia. It is very dangerous to go to Malaysia by human smuggling agents. However since we could not apply passport under Myanmar military authority, there is no other choice than to use agents to come to Malaysia.

Military regime has no law in Myanmar but rule the country with order. Whatever the military officers order are all laws for civilians. In Chin state, we all depend upon slash and burn farming for survival. However the military regime ordered that no one Chin state could cut trees. In order to do farming, normal civilian has to bribe military officer to cut trees to make farm. Force human porter service is rampant in Chin state. As excessive porter services are rampant in Chin state, most Chin people could not concentrate on their farming and often resulted in big loss for harvesting. Women were raped and threatened also by soldiers if disclose to someone or lodge a report. The worst is the military persuaded many Chin poor families to convert into Buddhism by giving moneys which they actually confiscated from the Chin people.

On the current situation in Myanmar, the military regime went ahead with referendum on May 10, 2008 the devastating cyclone killed almost one hundred thousands Burmese on May 3, 2008. The referendum is totally unacceptable because according friends with we contacted there in Myanmar, the military gave vote-papers which are already ticked with a sign to indicate support to military rule in Myanmar. Soldiers were deployed in polling stations and voters were also demanded to put their names and addresses on the vote-sheet. However many Chin people vote “NO” to military referendum. The reason why we vote “NO” to this referendum is the constitution drafted by military regime gave 25% seats to military in parliament and the head state must be a military general. This drafted constitution defects democratic freedom but only given military permanent rule in Myanmar. Furthermore, the regime seek to rule the whole nation from central leadership which means all the states could not decide on their own for their own people.

The military authority is total dictator. Myanmar was once the most developed country up to 1960 after it got independent from Britain in 1948. However after the military seized power in 1962 and another military succeeded in 1988, Myanmar is now one of the poorest nation on earth. If you work for the whole day, you could get 3000 kyats ( US$ 3 ) but a single meal charge in a restaurant is 5000 kyats which your one day wages can not afford. The highest salaried person in Myanmar ( General Than Shwe ) pay is 150000 ( US$ 150. 00 ). A bag of rice in Myanmar costs 30000 while a police sergeant salary for a month is only 25000. It means all is settled from under the table. That’s why Myanmar is again champion of corruption in the world.

Political View

Political Views

There are many sorts of ‘reality’ about. Like minor gods they crouch for employment, waiting to be invoking to legitimate policies and projects that might otherwise be seen to be unwise or damaging. Their illegitimate offspring are called “unintended consequences” and are disowned and ignored, because the ‘reality’ lay in the intent, as expressed and celebrated, not in the outcome, disastrous though that may have turned out to be.

If we look around we will see ‘commercial reality’ cutting out the rainforests to make patio furniture, ‘industrial reality’ hovering infant fish from the ocean floor, ‘financial reality’ scraping the flesh from generosity with its golden teeth. Wherever there is a short-term advantage to be exploited, there you will find its own ‘reality’, waiting.
But if we look up at the sky we will see, oblivious to human concerns, the one real overall reality, whose name is simply: “How things are.”

It is a vast spacecraft, with climatic weapons of untold disaster at the ready, tooling up to destroy all we recognise as life on earth. Are the nations of the world gathering together to defeat or deflect it? Have they pooled and consolidate their defences?

No, not because it isn’t there, but because it is the sun and has always been there, and under it we have always nursed our other, petty, ‘realities’; human greed’s and squabbles about which it can know nothing, but away from which we cannot turn our eyes.

Global warming was first noticed in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, but the dangers that it had started to bring were not widely appreciated until a clear and unequivocal warning was given by Mrs Thatcher to the United Nations in November 1989. There she gave a rousing speech in which she called for a vast international co-operative effort to reverse without delay the already damaging effects of global warming.

That was the moment of truth, the end of humanity’s innocence.The United Nations received it with rapture and took no notice. Nor, come to that, did Mrs Thatcher, who promptly went on to foster a number of carbon-emission-rich initiatives, including the biggest road-building programme ever, for what she called “The great car economy”. So, in defiance of her own protestations, she and her government chose to follow ‘economic reality’ and, it could be said, thereby sealed the fate of the world.

Now, seventeen years on, with the largely man-made greenhouse gas (atmospheric CO2) at 380 parts per million and rising, global warming is now well under way. That was an ‘unintended consequence’ of the glorious industrial development of modern civilization, but nevertheless there is no doubt that the people of the world have to take notice of it and deal with it, or, very possibly, die.

The most widely-held consensus is that unless it is checked and reversed, global warming would cause the earth’s surface temperature to rise until a new ‘equilibrium temperature’, which may be several degrees Celsius higher than it is now, is reached. If that is allowed to happen, it is known that the earth would face a major extermination of most known life forms.
The obvious and perhaps the only sensible way to put a stop to this would be immediately to impose such restrictions on the output of man-made CO2 as are necessary to stop and reverse the progress of global warming.

What is not definitively established, and is therefore the subject of much conjecture, is how much time there is left in which to do this. Estimating the time available is not an easy task and it has been made more complex by a technical peculiarity of the process of global warming, which has meant although the greenhouse effect has been well under way for some time, its true effects are not, yet, visibly and seriously, affecting our own day-to-day lives.

The current understanding is that this delay is due to the fact that the mass of the earth is so vast that it is taking a long time to heat up. In addition, much of the extra energy currently being received is, for the moment, being absorbed ‘endothermically’ in the observable preliminiary process of melting the glaciers and ice-caps and the evaporation of water. This process has the effect of cooling the atmosphere, or rather, of slowing the rate of its warming, which gives a false indication of the speed of the process.

Apart from a few fringe commentators, some of whom maintain that global warming either isn’t happening, or is going to be rather fun, there are at present two main ‘schools of thought’ about how global warming should be dealt with. One, which takes what could be called the ‘gradual’ view, maintains that, (perhaps because the current rate of warming is regarded as typical), the process is relatively slow and that consequently, as well as making convenient, minor, but always publicly celebrated, gestures of energy economy, there is time enough to look for some, as yet uninvented, technical method of gradually reducing, without causing unacceptable inconvenience, the massive input of millions of tons of atmospheric CO2 from industrial and transport sources that are steadily building up the greenhouse effect and adding to global warming.That this is the preferred policy of the political establishments and some of their scientists was confirmed unequivocally by the Prime Minister who told us in May 2005 on Channel 4 TV that . . .“ . . . the reality is that you’re never going to tackle global warming by cutting economic growth or your living standards, and whatever people might want us to do there, the political reality is that it isn’t going to happen . . .”

The god that he summons for that assertion is the one called political reality. This deity, regardless of any actual considerations, is what he is obliged to follow, presumably because that is where our living-standards and the votes they bring are to be found. What this actually means for the future of the world is so appalling as to be beyond belief, because it makes clear that, although he accepts that our precious economic growth and our extravagant living standards are known to be the main power-house of the pollution that drives global warming, there is precious little of substance that he is prepared to do about it, even though there is really no certainty that the gradual view chosen by the political establishment is either valid or likely to have the necessary effect in the time that remains.

The other school of thought, which could be called the ‘urgent’ view, takes into account other known aspects of the current situation. One is already mentioned: that the current rate of climatic warming is less than it would be if it wasn’t being used up melting the glaciers. Another is the observed fact that now, while the global warming is currently melting the glaciers and ice-caps, it is at the same time thawing out, and probably beginning to release, the large quantities of methane which are still deep-frozen in the polar regions. It is also understood that once this happens, there will be what is known as a ‘positive feed-back effect’, a process which is self-inducing in that the released methane, being a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, will increase the greenhouse effect, thus releasing more methane . . . and so on. That, coupled with many other similar ‘positive feed-back effects’ including the loss of polar-ice reflectivity, would, if unleashed, set global warming on its way to becoming runaway and non-reversible.But also, as already mentioned, underlying and dwarfing these effects is the largely unrecognised physical fact that the immense thermal mass of the earth, which, like some gigantic storage-heater block, has been slowly soaking in the heat for decades, will go on slowly warming up and contributing to climatic mayhem even after the greenhouse is dismantled and the CO2 reduced.

The urgent view is that the present lull in the progress of global warming indicates that there could still be a ‘window of intervention’ which might last a few years, perhaps even a decade. Within that period the human race must, if it is to survive, plan, put into effect and complete the implementation of, all the social and industrial changes necessary to reduce the concentration of atmospheric CO2 to a level at which global warming is not only stopped but the long-term stored heat of the last twenty years warming is proportionately dissipated. The above alternative prognoses, being “mere mathematics”, are inevitably in some degree conjectural and obviously can’t be demonstrated in practice. So no doubt people and governments are tempted to assume that they are entitled to choose and support a particular version of the situation. This may be the most convenient, or the most optimistic, or even the view which they think is most likely to be accurate. After all, as people say: nobody can ever be absolutely certain exactly what the future will bring.They are wrong about that. We have no such entitlement. Nobody has. Ordinary common-sense tells us that there is only one thing that is absolutely certain. It is this.
In circumstances where there is even the slightest chance that the result of failing to deal with a possible situation would be the death of the world, then, if it wishes to survive, the human race has no option but to take whatever action is necessary to deal with that situation, however unpleasant and difficult that may appear to be, and to take it at once.In our situation there is, to use the Cold War phrase: ‘no alternative to worst-case thinking.’ So to take action now is not a matter of choice. It is an imperative. We are not used to imperatives. We are more accustomed to being offered a choice between alternatives. So the options can be expressed as if they were a choice.If, on the one hand, we choose to accept some quite severe privations in order to bring the levels of atmospheric CO2 down, we will certainly be seriously inconvenienced for a while, but we will survive (perhaps ingeniously finding new sources of energy), and there will be no reason why our grandchildren shouldn’t have a homely, habitable world to live in for the foreseeable future (and if, later, it should turn out that our caution was unnecessary, we might feel a bit foolish, but at least they would be alive). If, on the other hand, we take no notice, if we choose to ignore the known likelihood and just go on more or less as usual. If we let life take its course as we make some gestures towards energy economy while continuing to pump up the CO2 concentration, then we should be able to go on being very comfortable, for a while. But if we do that there is a very real likelihood that most of our grandchildren will be dead or, if alive, will be vainly trying to find a way to go on living in a climatically explosive world that is inescapably on its way to chaos and death. So if there is a choice, it is a straight choice between life and death, between the life and the death of the human race.

The reality is that if no choice, or the wrong choice, is made, if we are so limp that we allow the Prime Minister’s ‘political reality’ to prevail over actual reality, then the final ‘unintended consequence’ may well be that the only chance of survival for our grandchildren will depend on nothing but the hideous hope that the first major disaster of the oncoming climate change will turn out to be sufficiently dreadful to command the nations’ full attention at last, and that it will happen soon enough to bring the world to its senses while there is time.
Don’t bank on it!