Posted on 03/26/2005 1:41:58 PM PST by ZayYa
After the Mizo human tsunami squeezed for one night and after spending his last six days at hospital, the body of Biak Nei Sang, 42, son of Sum Luai, of Tahan, Kale Myo, Sagaing Division, Burma was taken off from the Aizawl Civil Hospital, Aizawl, Mizoram, India and returned to Burma.
Biak Nei Sang, a business man, was taken from the house where he temporarily resided on March 16, 2005 by 10 young men of a team called the “Tsunami MizoramTlangval” (M.T.V.). The M.T.V. men said, they had questions and as soon as he was taken off from the house, he was blind folded and thrown into the car and no one knew where and why he was taken off.
It was a human tsunami night for Biak nei Sang.
The next day, 17 march 2005, some people who walked out in the early morning found Biak Nei Sang’ body by the side of Tlawnglui Street at the outskirt of the Aizawl City. When Biak Nei Sang was discovered, his whole body was wounded and swelling from top to toe, said the news. He was taken to the Aizawl Civil Hospital. After four days, on 20 March 2005, he was transferred to the Greenwood Hospital, Aizawl, Mizoram. Due to his serious injury in his body, he breathed his last at4:10 am, 23 March 2005.
According to the news, the reason he was beaten up was linked with the Young Mizo Association’s (Y.M.A.) “Anti-Drug-War-Year,” although no official link between the Y.M.A. and the M.T.V. is not known.
According to the report, no evidence was found or no official declaration was made by the M.T.V. to prove that Biak Nei Sang possessed, sold, any kind of illicit drugs, heroin called no# 4 or similar illicit drugs or involved in any kind of drug related business.
Regarding the death of Biak Nei Sang, none of the Mizoram State or local government agencies made further inquiry although the news had been published by the Mizoram local news.
The Chins (Burmese) in Aizawl were gathering to say “good bye” to Biak Nei Sang. But no one, due to the legal status and the Mizo people’s apparent attitudes toward the Burmese in Mizoram, dare to question why he was beaten to death. As the body was taken off, his brother, Lal Than Eng, sang a folk song, calling the spirit of his father, "Manglian e ka pa hin e, hun thei au law. Na cawi e hrin hniang hin e tlun zai a rel e”, meaning (My beloved father, please hear me what I say, your beloved son has prepared to return home.” All the people felt helpless and humiliation.
No government official gets involved to investigate the story. Biak Nei Sang died like a dog in the street Calcutta, where a dog has no legal recognition and protection as a living being or as an animal. If Biak Nei Sang died in a civilized society like in the US, the story would have been investigated and the civilized government would have taken any necessary action. But in an exclusive Christian society of the Mizo people, the death of a foreigner, Biak Nei Sang, is worth nothing more then the death of a dog on the street.
This is part of the sufferings of the people of Burma both in their homeland and in their host countries.
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