Chin Refugee Beaten up To Death

 By Simon

Photo - VOCR

Kuala Lumpur (VOCR) 06 Sept: There are fears skyrocketing among the refugee community that the recognised Chin refugee, Za Thio, 37, was beaten up to death last Sunday night while a time the victim together with his younger brother was sending off the much-younger friend, Van Hmun Tha, 19 to the stone's throw away bus stop at Ampatplas Puchung, western suburban area of Kuala Lumpur. 

At the first hint of problem, while awaiting the bus coming, Mr. Za Thio and Van Hmun Tha went out peeing off at a dark place just before the bus came in which they had been immediately attacked and hit by a thug of gangs—appearing to be from the nearby area. Van Hmun Tha was known first hit and fell down unconscious because of his head hitting the car as being thrown away.

"When I recovered back from my falldown unconscious, I heard that a thug of gangs, identified them as Indian-Malay, talking under the sun around me and fearing that I would be killed, I quickly got up and run away to escaping from the hands of the gangsters" said the alive victim.

Both of the victims are from the same village, Hriangkhan, Thantlang Tsp, Chin State, Myanmar.

The family was worried over his unusually long disappearance until over the midnight from sending friend off to the bus stop with the absence of giving a reminder; giving a call and leaving a message--reason of being unable to return home. The next early morning, the wife, Par Cia, left with three children, came to inform their village elders concerning her husband loss but learning very soon that his body had been taken dead to Serdang hospital by the police.

According to the note from doctor in Serdang hospital, he was robustly beaten up with something material [weapon used] as his fore-head and back-head was holed up inside as a result of an extreme beating.

The advocate community leader from OPI department in CRC was told that Mr.Za Thio was highly drunk before the incident taken place by a team of police who were undertaking the case and adding that his body was picked up in the ditch very close to the bus stop and sent it to Serdang hospital for furthering post-mortem checkup in the very early morning of yesterday. 

However, the fully-traumatized victim, Van Hmun Tha told The VOCR that he guessed the group who beat my friend to death would be the same group who beat me unconscious and they all are black and seemed a thug of gangs—Malay-born Indian. He admitted that he truly did not know the exact identity of them.

Many of Chins in the said vicinity claimed that Van Hmun Tha is a very bad guy and irresponsibly drunk all the time despite his age so much young and causing the uneasy troubles between the locals and Myanmar refugees stranding in that areas. 

For a lesson to be learning for the whole community of Chin refugees in Malaysia, one valuable life was scarified to death because of one rotten rubbish.

The funeral service was conducted today in Imbi and buried in Puchung cemetery with the lead of Chin Christian leaders.