Mawta
Mawta is a Mara word for famine related to bamboo flowering (Melocanna baccifera), a rare phenomenon that occurs once in every 50 years, when the most common tree of the forest in the region - bamboo flower and produce a fruit rich in nutrients, the fruit attracts a plague of forest rats feasting and reproducing in a rapid rate; once they finished the bamboo fruits they start attacking crops in the fields devouring all the standing crops leaving nothing to the farmers for harvest. The effect lasts up to 5 years. MFRC is working to help the victims meet their basic needs by distributing their daily needs and how to initiate an alternate methods of farming or livelihood through sympathisers and donors across the globe.
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Famine forces over 30 Chin families to flee Burma
August 13, 2009: More than 30 families from Chin state, western Burma, recently fled to neighboring Mizoram in northeast India because of the on-going famine. Read the rest of this entry »
Christian Cross Destroyed To Be Replaced With Pagoda
A Christian cross planted on the top of Kimo mountain in Paletwa Township, Chin State was pulled down in March, 2009 and is to be replaced with a Buddhist pagoda by the military regime, sources unveiled. Read the rest of this entry »
Seminar on Bamboo Famine held in South Mizoram
An international seminar on ‘Mawta/Mautam’ Famine was recently held at Tipa (Tuipang) in South Mizoram. It was conducted by Mawta Famine Relief Committee (MFRC), well attended by victims from across the border and sympathisers from India and abroad. The report is below: Read the rest of this entry »
MFRC to hold 5-day conference for Chin famine victims in Mizoram
Mawta Famine Relief Committee (MFRC) will hold 5-day conference at Tipa V (Tuipang V) town in Siaha (Saiha) District, South Mizoram for Mawta Famine victims in Chin State, Myanmar from January 17-21 this new year. Read the rest of this entry »
Chin people plagued with disease with onset of famine
Khonumthung News, Oct. 31 - An official from Mohre Youth Clinic has reported that there have been many visitors from Chin state’s Matupi and Thantlang villages, who had come for a check up in Mohre Youth Clinic, in the Indo-Myanmar boarder area earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »
Mawta Famine Relief Press Release No. 2
Mawta Famine Relief Committee (MFRC), an NGO established by the famine victims in Chin state has released its Press Release No. 2. Kindly read below: Read the rest of this entry »
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