Chin Asylum-seeker Girl Seriously Injured in An Abducted attack

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Puchung (VOCR), March 22, 2012: A Chin asylum seeker girl, who is known as Tum Zi from Tlangkhua, Thantlang Tsp, Chin state, was abducted to get a ride on the motor-bike by a man while she was lost on the way back home from looking for a job in TESCO area in Puchung, northern suburban from Kuala Lumpur.

“I just recently arrived in Malaysia and working in a restaurant where the working hour is very long and decided to find a better job in TESCO area when I got a day off” said the victim in an interview with The VOCR, adding that she is very new and inexperience to Malaysia which led her unnoticeably got on a bus which heads to different destination from where she lives.

When noticed the bus going to different way, she turned to ask the bus driver where the bus was heading. Having being told to get off from the bus, she tried her best to find the nearest bus-stop for the fact that she is petrified of getting taxi alone.

While she was looking for the nearest bus-stop, a man claimed by the victim as a Rohinya with his motor-bike crossed the road and finding her walking alone and turned back to her and approaching her. Immediately, she was asked whether where she wanted to go home, the man apparently persuaded her to get her sent off home by his motor-bike.

Despite attempts to refuse him, as there is no one walking around the area, he finally forcibly abducted her to get on his motor-bike with threats to be harmed if prepared to run away.

After following him for just a little while, the man started physically harassing her body with question repeatedly asking her nationality. Even so, she honestly still replied that she is an asylum seeker from Chin state, Burma. The man seemed to doubly speed up his motor-bike driving.

Photo: VOCR

The incident taken place is believed to be around 4:30 p.m on 20^th of this month.

Learning that she will surely be harmed if continuously followed him, she decided to better die on the road than facing a physical abuse by the man which is the sole trigger for jumping down from the motor-bike on the full speeding run.

She was left seriously injured in several places on her body and not even knowing how she was brought up to the Burmese shop near her residence. As soon as she could manage to get home, she fell unconscious for couple of hours and later gaining a recovery back, yelled her roommate.

Also, her roommate added that the incident was so horrifically tragic that she feels as if it was a dreaming.

Asked how she could manage to get home, according to her friend who went to Burmese shop the next morning for further information, it was suggested that she might possibly be brought to the nearby Burmese shop by the perpetrator himself knowing that she is a Chin asylum seeker living in the surrounding area which purportedly causes suspicion that he might be closely associated with the businessmen working at Burmese shop.  The allegation is taken based on the way the Burmese respond.

Meanwhile, the Burmese people at the shop also deny connection with the incident but rather claimed that she approached to them by herself and even providing her with some medical attention, instead.

The victim herself does not know how she can get home during an interview with The VOCR.  

Prior to this, there was a similar kind of incident occurred that Ngun Uk Mang from the same village was once stabbed in his back at the drunken brawl with the Burmese guys from the shop four months ago. He was said to have been normal from his wounds as he had medical treatment for couple of days at hospital.

It was learnt that the victim is currently being assisted both mentally and physically by the Chin Refugee Committee (CRC).



By Simon