Persecution of Chin people

What is persecution?

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms.

Reporters from BBC covertly went to a village of Chin people who are being mistreated and abused in all ways. The culprits of these persecution are Burmese Troops, the puppets and "dogs" of military junta.

BBC team was guided to the village by military-blacklisted Chin activist Ms. Zahau. The words of Ms. Zahau, "If we don't speak up, if we don't tell the stories of the people under this repressive military regime, then no-one will know what's happening, and if they don't know they will not do anything," grasp the heart of many people over the world.

People from Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) have not heard of these stories for a long time because of the government's total control of media in Burma. Television, Newspaper, Journals, Magazine, and all kinds of media, except Internet, are regulated by military officials. Even Internet is blocked partially sometimes.

The regime systematically banned the watching of news over the world via satellite by increasing the tax rates of possessing the satellite receivers (in Burma, even if you buy the satellite with your money, you still have to pay tax to the government). Since the average salary of middle-class people are low due to inflation, the general public has no idea what is going on far from the city, Rangoon.

The systematical persecution of the military regime is very treacherous. Nobody ever has such twisted brain as the junta since history. Hitler is just a fly compared with the bat-like junta.

Although Hitler was notoriously vicious and cruel, Hitler did not do any harm to his people. Burmese military government do not care about Burmese people, instead they live on citizens' "sweat and blood" (according to Burmese saying).

If the regime successively mistreats Chin people for their difference in climate, religion and views, more Chin people will move to India. If most of the people from Chin State move to India, that means Burma has lost its land, a State. If Burma lost a state, we have to change our beautiful national flag with fourteen stars which represent fourteen states. So, we, Burmese people, should make people from all over the world know about Chin people's lack of human rights... right now!!!


Reference:

Bagnall, Sam. Burma's 'forgotten' Chin people suffer abuse. BBC. Apr 19 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk

Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution

Chin Women Organization http://www.chinwomen.org

BLAST IN BURMA? WHO MIGHT CAUSE IT?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8622068.stm

In the very secure city of Rangoon, my hometown, there was a huge blast this morning, causing 9 casualties and at least 30 wounded people. (according to BBC)

In fact, total of 59 man and 16 woman were injured, according to resources.

Today is the most sacred holiday called Thingyan for Buddhist people. In this water festival, people play water from 13th April to 16th April in order to celebrate this sacred holiday. The purpose of Thingyan is to clear the sins from last year and be a new person with new soul and body.

However, Military government banned building of Pandals ('mandat' in Burmese or 'pavalions') around the city since last 4 years, allowing people to build Pandals in a big road called Inyar Road where most of the higher-ups from military live. Do they not want people to clear their mind and body? May be they don't.

Surprisingly and sadly, Military government banned building of Pandals even in Inyar Road this year. As Thingyan is important for Burmese people, Pandal coordinators decided to build near the Kandawgyi, which is one of the most famous place in Rangoon.

A lot of people went there for celebrating the festival. What did they get? They got bombed. Isn't it too obvious that the military government deliberately moved the festival area to the place where the higer-ups do not live?

And don't forget that in September the military government shot monks, the most sacred persons for Buddhists and for people in Burma. So, it is not a surprise that the junta won't even care about the people under their reign.

But what makes me think this way?

There will be a so called election in October where many political parties will get involved, except NLD which got highly supported by Burmese citizens.

In 1990, NLD won the election by high percentage of support but the military government cheated the ballot counts and made fake ballots of their own. They overruled the election and took the position of the head of the state by force.

Talking about history, there was also bombing before the referendum in 2008. And the bombing was very close to the City Hall which had a very tight security. Who else can get near city hall without permission from the military? Who else can diffuse the bomb near the city hall? I could think of no one, except the military junta.

But why? Why did they want to plant the bomb near the city hall? They just tried to scare people and wanted to win the election in dirty way.

Back to present, IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN!!! They want to get the "Seat at the United Nations" which is taken by NLD by scaring people. Without a doubt, the junta will definitely blame and link these bombings on NLD in a few days.

My guess is there will be more terrorist activities in coming months in order to discredit NLD. And of course, they are using such "control-by-scaring" tactics to baffle the minds of the citizen and hoping to get the reason to disband NLD.

After all, their goal is to wipe out the name, "NLD", from the surface of the earth and rule over the country with the dirtiest tricks.

Reference
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8622068.stm
CNN News http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/myanmar.blast/index.html?iref=allsearch