CHIN NATIONAL DAY & CHIN HISTORY

CHIN NATIONAL DAY

A Brief Account of Chin National Day and the Chin peopleBy Pu Lian UkDear all:Introduction: - The Chins people around the world are preparing to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Chin National Day, which falls this year on Wednesday, February 20, 2008. Some Chins Communities might like to invite dignitary people and guests to the Chin National Day Celebration to observe what the Chin cultural life is like on their national day abroad. So we need to make them know about the Chins National Day celebration what it really means at least in brief.

In order that we can let them know such people who are interested on the Chin National Day and the Chin people, this message “A brief Account of the Chin National Day and the Chin People” is here posted to all the Chin communities around the world so that it could be reproduced any interested part. from it or all the whole message.

Celebrating the Chin National Day for the Chin communities anywhere else is the best way to teach our daughters and sons that they are Chins as they are the children of the Chin parents who care them most in the world. The reason is either parents or both are Chin descendants who have a very wide territory known as Chin State or Chinland or Chin country as their home land which no other people can claim legitimately as their homeland except we, the Chin people. However it is a constituent state of the Union of Burma.(UB). The Children can say they are Chins or if necessary they are to say Burma Chins as it is Burma Chinese or Burma Indians. But they cannot say Burmese or Burmans as Chins are not Burmese or Burmans in strict sense. If necessary they can say they are from Burma as the term Burma is the abbreviation of the Union of Burma in U N though we prefer to use here UB abbreviation.

This Chinland territory for us is so dear that we cannot get such a wide territory anywhere else in the world like what we have here where only Chin language and culture can prosper independently through its length and breadth.

This was what our Poet Pu Rokunga composed “Hi ai ram nuam zawk hi ramdang a um cuang lo e”=There is no country more enjoyable to live in than ours” in his song “Kan Zotlang Ram Nuam”. It was with this song that the 3rd Chin Rifles Battalion got first in playing this music in the Band groups’ competition of all Battalion Band groups of the whole armed forces in the UB in 1953. India also has Assam Rifles and Manipur Rifles like Chin Rifles in the UB.

All people of the world need friendship and support from other people of the world. In the same way, we, the Chins people also need the support and friendship of the people who should also know us and recognize us as a people with our own territory. So we need to seek friendship and support from other people of the world who also seek friendship and support from other people of the world.

Thus Chin National Day Celebration is in one way to make known about us and our existence as a people to the people around the world so that we can seek friendship and support to each other. So celebrating Chin National Day is not only to commemorate our historical event, but it is a way of seeking friendship and support from people who should have interest on us.

We must not forget our fore fathers in who create this national day in unity led by Pu Vum Tu Mawng and Pu Mang Tung Nung who cause to have this precious Chin National Day. Their spirits will be flying and hovering over us on the day we celebrate the Chin National Day and they will be with us in spirits so that the Chin people around the world are in unity against our common enemy, the Burmese military regime who are trying to destroy the Chin people and the Chin National Day in betraying the Chin people who saved the Union at its lowest difficult period when it was only one finger apart from total ruin in 1950s-60s.

It is a long message here, but it will certainly inspire all who read it.

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A Brief Account of Chin National Day and the Chin peopleThe emergence of the Chin National Day: - Chin National Day derived from the particular day February 20, 1948 on which a resolution was adopted to replace the hereditary ruling system of the Chieftainship or aristocracy in the Chin territory with the democratic election system of administration in majority consent of the Chieftains or aristocrats and their subjects at the conference held at Falam, attended by delegates of all parts of the Chin territory on Burma side. February 20 was therefore made in the Union Parliament of the UB to be an official holiday as Chin National Day within the Chin territory by the Chin Affairs Council led by Pu Vum Tu Mawng as Minister and Pu Mang Tung Nung as Parliamentary Secretary of the Chin Affairs Ministry of the government of the Union of Burma (UB).

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