{"id":41371,"date":"2019-01-30T17:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41371"},"modified":"2019-01-30T17:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:14:30","slug":"include-chin-refugees-in-citizenship-bill-chakma-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/include-chin-refugees-in-citizenship-bill-chakma-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Include Chin refugees in citizenship Bill: Chakma NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/include-chin-refugees-in-citizenship-bill-chakma-ngos\/article26123723.ece\"><strong>Include Chin refugees in citizenship Bill: Chakma NGOs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The article discusses the origin and problems of Chin tribes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight organisations of the Chakma community have appealed to the Centre to further amend the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill for including Myanmar along with Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan for allowing citizenship status to Chin tribe.<\/li>\n<li>Chin is a Myanmarese ethnic tribe which is ethnically related to the majority Mizos of Mizoram and the Kuki-Zomi groups in Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>In November 2017, about 1,600 Chins, many of whom were women and children, fled to Lawngtlai district of Mizoram following a military offensive against the Arakan Army militants in that country\u2019s Chin State.<\/li>\n<li>While some went back, around 1,440 refugees have reportedly refused to return due to insecurity in Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>There are an estimated 100,000 Chins in Mizoram, which is 20% of the total Chin population in Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>About 4,000 Chin refugees are registered with UNHCR in India their \u2018refugee status\u2019 will end with effect from August 1, 2018 on the ground that Myanmar has now become \u201cstable and secure\u201d for them to return home and, therefore, they don\u2019t need \u201cinternational protection\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Include Chin refugees in citizenship Bill: Chakma NGOs Polity News: The article discusses the origin and problems of Chin tribes. Facts: Eight organisations of the Chakma community have appealed to the Centre to further amend the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill for including Myanmar along with Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan for allowing citizenship status to Chin tribe.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/include-chin-refugees-in-citizenship-bill-chakma-ngos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Include Chin refugees in citizenship Bill: Chakma NGOs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-governance","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704879214},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}