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Christian students from Myanmar’s Chin ethnic minority have been forced to convert to Buddhism, shave their heads, and wear monastic robes. According to the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) the Chin face harassment for the link between their faith and British colonial rule.
Rachel Fleming, a member of the group, said that Christianity does not fit with the national view that “to be Burmese, you should be Buddhist.”
There have been accounts of Chin students being beaten for failing to recite Buddhist scriptures.
A majority of Chin students are enrolled in Myanmar’s military-run schools due to their poverty and the fact that the schools offer free food, education, and government jobs once they graduate.
However, many have fled to neighboring India to escape army abuses under the former junta. Amnesty International said Chin Christians still face persecution, citing the case of a preacher barred from speaking at a church and ordered to leave the area.
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