Independent Mon News Agency: Chin people fleeing famine after plague of rats destroys crops

10 October 2008, 12:56 pm

Famine in Chin State is causing people to abandon their native homeland, says an ethnic Chin man interviewed as he approached Three Pagodas Pass, on the Thai-Burma border. The twenty-seven-year old man was traveling with forty-one other people from Chin State, including fifteen children. Many of the refugees in the group are from Haka, the capital [...]... read more

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