Chin Women Forced to Join Burmese Women Organisation

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Chin Women Forced to Join Burmese Women Organisation

October 13, 2004- (DVB) Women from villages in Falam Township, Chin State, northwest Burma have been forced to join the women organization sponsored by Daw Khin Win Shwe, the wife of General Khin Nyunt, the “Prime Minister” of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).

According to a Chin woman, village women aged between 18 and 60 have been forced to join the organization and pay 300 kyat as membership fee. Those who refuse to do so are threatened with fines and punishments.

Most women are poor subsistence farmers and they are finding it extremely hard to scrape together the necessary 300 kyat demanded by the representatives of the organization.

From: http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=3202

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