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NHRC petitioned to stop eviction of Chins from Mizoram
New Delhi, Oct 05: The Chins of Myanmar, who left their country to escape discrimination and settled in Mizoram for decades, today face threats of eviction from their homes as political groups and youth wings have given them the ultimatum to go out of the state.
New Delhi, Oct 05: The Chins of Myanmar, who left their country to escape discrimination and settled in Mizoram for decades, today face threats of eviction from their homes as political groups and youth wings have given them the ultimatum to go out of the state.
Two petitions have been filed before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking its intervention to direct the state government to restrain local groups from violating the basic human rights of the chins by seeking their forcible eviction from their homes.
The incident was triggered off following the rape of a local girl allegedly by a person of chin ethnicity. Though the offender had been apprehended by the police, "the local groups with vested political interests have used this incident to incite people against chins and have taken it upon themselves to physically evict them," petitioner Philip Jadhav said. The other petition on the same issue pending before the NHRC was filed by the NGO 'Friends of Burma'.
Of a total of 72 village councils in the state, 29 have already taken action and all the chins living there have been forced to move back to Myanmar.
Saying that safety of about 50,000 people of Chin ethnicity living in Mizoram is threatened, the petitioner pointed out that the forcible eviction was a "gross violation of their right to life and it is the duty of the state as well as the Union government to take necessary and immediate action to stop the eviction of these people." Bureau Report
The incident was triggered off following the rape of a local girl allegedly by a person of chin ethnicity. Though the offender had been apprehended by the police, "the local groups with vested political interests have used this incident to incite people against chins and have taken it upon themselves to physically evict them," petitioner Philip Jadhav said. The other petition on the same issue pending before the NHRC was filed by the NGO 'Friends of Burma'.
Of a total of 72 village councils in the state, 29 have already taken action and all the chins living there have been forced to move back to Myanmar.
Saying that safety of about 50,000 people of Chin ethnicity living in Mizoram is threatened, the petitioner pointed out that the forcible eviction was a "gross violation of their right to life and it is the duty of the state as well as the Union government to take necessary and immediate action to stop the eviction of these people." Bureau Report