Hard economic times and human rights abuses in Burma’s Chin State continue to cause ethnic Chin to leave for foreign countries. Some become migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers, and some lose their lives during the journey.
The discovery of 22 corpses, mostly believed to be Chin refugees, floating in the Andaman Sea off Thailand’s west coast is recent confirmation of the desire of Chin people to seek a better life in a neighboring country. (more…)