The last page of A copy of our MOU between CAD and LIDPMC

With a collective request and decision of Lutuv Tribal Elders leaders for swift responding of possible Internally Displaced People in the central part of Chin State, Lutuv tribal area on 20 February 2022, CAD signed a Memory of Understanding with Lautu Internally Displaced People Management Committee (LIDPMC).

IDP Camp in Kayah State

After giving refuge to about five hundreds of desperate displaced people from other regions since January 2022, at some villages in the Lutuv region, our regional leaders were convinced well that a solid preparation for possible huge-IDPs is necessary in our region. Such sudden arrival of displaced people from other villages to our region, make some Lutuv villagers shocked that they felt insecure and some Lutuv people also run to India border areas where thousands of Chin people are taking refuges in makeshift camps since September 2021. Actually there was never war between the army and militia in our area for the last 40 years.

Therefore LIDPMC was hereby set up by Lutuv Villages’ Elders of (12) Villages in Hnaring town on 27 January 2022 to provide swift assistances and humanitarian aids to Internally Displaced People from other regions and from other villages if such crisis would happen in our mother Lutuv region. The reason of setting us such committee is that after the Myanmar military overthrown the elected civilian government of National League for Democracy in 2020 election on 1 February 2021, intensive fighting between the army and local youth armed groups known as the Chinland Defense Forces – CDF, who are fighting for restoration of democracy and for eradication of military regime, have been occurring since March 2021 in Chin state. Such civil war has resulted exodus of thousands of local people from their villages to peaceful areas. Thousands of houses were either destroyed or burnt down and hundreds of local people were shot killed and arrested without any accountability by any party.

This LIDPMC was hereby set up by Lutuv Villages’ Elders of (12) Villages in Hnaring town on 27 January 2022 to provide swift assistances and humanitarian aids to Internally Displaced People from other regions and from other villages if such crisis would happen in our mother Lutuv region. The reason of setting us such committee is that after the Myanmar military overthrown the elected civilian government of National League for Democracy in 2020 election on 1 February 2021, intensive fighting between the army and local youth armed groups known as the Chinland Defense Forces – CDF, who are fighting for restoration of democracy and for eradication of military regime, have been occurring since March 2021 in Chin state. Such civil war has resulted exodus of thousands of local people from their villages to peaceful areas. Thousands of houses were burnt down and thousands of local people were shot killed and arrested without any accountability by any party.

We estimate that there are about 15,000 populations of Lutuv tribe around the world. The majority of Lutuv people are living in Thang Tlang and Matupi townships, the central part of Chin state, in Kalay township of Sagain region, but the minority in Yangon, in Australia, in United States of America, Europe, in Malaysia and India. 100% of the Lutuv tribe are Christians.

Houses in Thang Tlang Town were being ravaged.

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