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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:19 AM
Subject: [ZONET] Burmese regime bans Chin historical day
Burmese regime bans Zomi (Chin) historical day
Khonumthung News
February 20, 2008.
The Burmese military regime has ordered people in Zomi (Chin) state, Burma
not to commemorate the Zomi's (Chin's) historic day by the name of "Zomi
(Chin) Nation Day".
The 60th anniversary of Zomi (Chin) National Day falls today.
Zomi (Chin) National Day is the day on which the people in Zomi (Chin)
state
agreed to abolish the inherited chieftain****p system and practice a
democratic system at a national assembly held in Falam town in Zomi (Chin)
state on February 20, 1948.
However, the democratic system failed to take off in Zomi (Chin) society
after the military junta seized power in 1962.
Today, the regime did not allow the people in Hakha Town****p, capital of
Zomi (Chin) state to hold the national day as the Zomi (Chin) Nation Day
and
instead told them to call it the "Zomi (Chin) Culture Day", according to
locals in Zomi (Chin) State.
"You all know the situation in Burma, if the regime doesn't want it, we
can't do anything," said a local on condition of anonymity.
Moreover, the authorities from Sagaing Division also prohibited
celebrating
"Zomi (Chin) National Day" in Kalay University campus this year. In
previous
years, the Kalay university students were allowed to hold their national
day
function in the campus.
Meanwhile, the Zomi (Chin) Literature and Culture Committee in Rangoon
[is]
said to have celebrated its historical day in City Lion in Rangoon today.
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