Rethinking Our Identity: A closer look at Chin, Laimi and Zomi

By Dr.J.Suan Za DongRethinking Our Identity: A closer look at Chin, Laimi and Zomi strictly based on recorded documents.“The generic name of the whole nation (Kuki/Chin) is Zo (Dzo)”………..Col. TH Lewin, Lushai Expedition 1871-72““I do not know the origin of the name Chin is Burmese. I fancy, anyhow,...

History of Zomi Refugees

By Tual Khan SuanThe Zomi people are inhabited in the western part of Myanmar (Burma), the present day of Chin State – a mountainous landscape stretching along the present day Indo-Burma border- an area of circa 36000 square kilometers. The total population of the Zomi people inhabiting in Chin...

CHHAWKHLEI: Lamlian Lehlam

CHHAWKHLEI CULTURAL CLUB & STUDENTS' UNION (2020-2021)PACHHUNGA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE(A Constituent College of Mizoram University)(This video is made and owned by Chhawkhlei Cultural Club ,Pachhunga University College on behalf of Pachhunga University College.Any reproduction or illegal distribution of the content and the track in any form may result in immediate action against the person concerned)Welcome...

Khuado Festival: The Zomi New Year

By Dr James S Z DongKhuado is the most popular occasion on the Zomi (the so called Chin) calendar. It is the biggest festival of the year celebrated by the Zomi. It takes place at the time when the weather is superb, with the downpour of monsoon rain already gone entering into early autumn before...

How Came Our Chin National Day (February 20, 1948)

By Khup Khan ThangThree score and eleven years ago today, on the 20th February 1948, our forefathers brought forth to the Chin Hills, a new polity, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal (no slaves, no chiefs), thereby abolishing the system of hereditary...

Adoption of the Name Zomi Baptist Convention

There had never been any formally constituted organization of the Christian churches in the Chin Hills. When I returned from the U.S.A. arriving at Rangoon on 18th September, 1950, I was invited to speak at the Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Fellowship in October. In my speech I attempted...

Biography of Dr. Vumson Suantak

MY FATHER, Vum Son Suantak, was born to Pu Ngul Zam and Pi Neam Mang in the Sizang village of Tamdeang on November 9th, 1937. He was their third son. Two of his older brothers died of dysentery before Vum Son was born. He would become the eldest of eight children. Vum Son’s father was a health inspector...

How Chin Capital Was Moved - Dr. Vumson Suantak

(This is a comment I wrote on the Chin State Capital in response to Dr. Lian Hmung Sakhong’s book. He writes) “Since the arrival of the British, Haka became the capital of Eastern Chinram.” To my recollection Hakha had never been the capital of Eastern Chinram until 1964. Let me give an account of the...
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