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