Underlying the rivalry are long-standing tensions between the various Chin tribes. The Chin has a long history of opposition to military dictatorships in Myanmar. The Chin National Front (CNF) and its ...

Over the past three years, Chin State has been subjected to some of the heaviest military assaults seen anywhere in Myanmar. The junta has conducted disproportionate and indiscriminate airstrikes ...

Falam town, Chin State – In the mountains of western Myanmar, photographs of fallen fighters line a wall of a rebel headquarters – an honour roll of some 80 young men, beginning with 28-year ...

ZOKHAWTHAR, India - In the pre-dawn darkness on Monday, a 22-year-old Myanmar rebel fighter approached a hill-top military camp in remote Chin State with dozens of comrades for an assault that ...

Nestled in the hills of Myanmar’s Chin State is a village that has charted a different route to express its opposition to the military regime. Residents of Salen village in Thantlang Township ...

Since the February 2021 coup in Myanmar, the Christian Chin ethnic minority has taken up arms to defend its land, identity and ideals against the all-powerful ruling junta in the Buddhist-majority ...

Myanmar is currently in the grip of a civil war with numerous armed groups fighting the military junta which deposed an elected government in 2021. Chin State is a stronghold of resistance against ...