Mawta Famine Relief Committee website launched
Mawta Famine Relief Committee (MFRC) was formed in response to the Mawta Famine that has swept Chin state in Western Myanmar (bordering Mizoram and Manipur states of India) due to an extra-ordinary phenomenon called Mawta also known as Mautam, Mautaam, etc.
Mawta is a Mara word for famine related to bamboo flowering, a rare phenomenon that occurs once in every 50 years, when bamboo flowers, the population of rats that consumed the flowers increased rapidly; one they finished the bamboo flowers they start attacking farming fields devouring all the standing crops leaving nothing to the farmers for harvest.
Source: Mawta.org
Mawta phenomenon is seen mainly in Chin-Kuki-Mizo inhabited areas of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, two Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, and Chin state in Myanmar; except one area which is Northeastern state of Kachin in Myanmar.
Zomi too have launched a website for the same cause, the url is www.mautaam.org
Posted: September 20th, 2008 under General.
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Tags: Chin famine, Chin state, Kachin famine, Manipur, mautaam.com, mautam.com, mizoram, www.mautaam.org, www.mawta.org
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Comment from rev victor veu
Time: September 20, 2008, 2:36 pm
Mawta Relief Committee khizaw pahno pata nama vaw phua thei vata eima lyh hmeisei.Eima paloh liata he hawta khizaw pahnopa eima cha khia eima sawkha chhao kheitma action maniah ala hei awh tahpa adaitiliata pacha hra ei sila,tahma cha eima ia apha haw ba.Thi awhpa hla cha hrona eima tly awh,Hro awh pata cha riapha pa apeima haw.
Cha vata he wed side he Mara pa rietheipa he hrona hnaw haw ta Khazoh pata byhna apie awh pa eima ngiapa hmeisei.
Ahriapasatuhpa nama zy dualiata alyna bie chhao eima cha hla.
Rev Victor Veu
General Secretary
mEC
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