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The names of Myanmarese people, who have settled abroad, have been deleted from family registration cards, as of October 2009 by military authorities in Chin state, Burma (Myanmar).

“It is related to the 2010 general elections. The checking was being done in Hakha and now it is being done in remote villages,” a local in Hakha said.

Besides, recently the junta seized most of the national identity cards of Indian-Burmese, who have been living legally since the independence of Burma from British rule.

An Indian-Burmese said, “I had the right to vote in the 2008 referendum using identity cards. But now they have seized all we have so we cannot take part in the forthcoming 2010 general elections.”

The people from Chin state, who left, are staying in Malaysia, India, Norway, Denmark, USA, Canada and Germany as refugees. There are about 20,000 to 30,000 refugees in Malaysia.

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