CHIN COMMUNITY
- March 23, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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CHIN COMMUNITY
Subject : Society
Context: No request received for asylum from Chin community, says Mizoram government.
Concept:
- The State government has said that asylum would be considered if there was a formal request cleared by the Centre.
- People belonging to Myanmar’s Chin community were seeking to migrate to Mizoram to escape a military crackdown, primarily because of the Chin National Army (CNA), an extremist group seeking self-determination in Chin State across the border.
- The Chin community and the Mizos in India belong to the Zo ethnic group, which share the same ancestry.
- Asylum, in international law, means the protection granted by a state to a foreign citizen against his own state.