What is your research about?

My research aim is to explore the situation of the Chin internally displaced persons especially in Yangon regions of Burma. Since the 2021 military coup in Burma/Myanmar, the country has become a battleground of extraordinary civic defiance. It is already four years of civil war in Burma and there is over 60,000 Chin people are displaced in India and half of population are become internally displaced in Yangon, Burma. There are over 3 million people are internally displaced in across Burma. I have chosen this research by illustrating and analyzing my experience in the field of displacement as I had fled to India in 2022, Thailand in 2023 as a displaced person and become refuge in Switzerland. There is limited information and study about the IDPs in Yangon. Therefore, the study area of Yangon is selected to address and analyzed the existing vulnerabilities of the Chin IDPs and their situation in the areas.

What is your background?

I have master’s in religion studies in Myanmar Institute of Theology (Burma) and International Student Exchange at University of College Stockholm (Sweden), Master of Divinity in Serampore University (India), Bachelor of Religious Studies in Serampore University (India), and Bachelor of Psychology in West University of Yangon (Burma). I was lecturer at Shan State Baptist Theological Seminary (2019-2021) in Burma and a research fellow at the Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai University, Thailand. His recent publication, “Unrest in Myanmar: After the Coup of 2021,” in the book Myanmar After the Coup: Resistance, Resilience, and Re-invention Torino: Torino World Affairds Institute, 2022), earned him one of the two Best Paper prizes in the category of young international scholars, “Working Class and Their Problem in Myanmar” Towards Myanmar Public Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023), and Forced Displacement Post-Coup Issues and Challenges for Myanmar’s Chin people in Mizoram (2024).

My areas of interest are human rights, forced displacement, religion and politics in Burma and Southeast Asia.