India being a neighboring country hosts a large and growing number of 100,000 Burmese refugees.
[4] Chin refugees have been leaving Burma for over four decades to escape persistent human rights abuses committed by the Burmese army.
[2] Many experts believe that abuses became increasingly systematic and serious after the 1988 uprising in Burma, and this date does signal a growth in the numbers of refugees in India.
Burmese refugees in India live primarily in two places: the Northeast states of Mizoram and, to a lesser extent, Manipur, and the capital city of New Delhi.
The inability of many Chin refugees to communicate in either English or Hindi also subjects them to daily hardship.