BURMA: REPORT DOCUMENTS ABUSE OF CHIN CHRISTIANS
February 20, 2009
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The Voice of the Martyrs
We told you a few days about about the abuse of Burmese Christians. Today Compass Direct has a news update.
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Human Rights Watch shows systematic, officially sanctioned religious freedom violations.
DUBLIN, February 20 (Compass Direct News) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s northwest who claim to be 90 percent Christian.
HRW’s research echoes a 2004 report by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) that described targeted abuse of Christians in Chin state, with the Burmese army subjecting pastors and church members to forced labor, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and sometimes death.