By Tikir Sanga
Laimi Kan thanchonak ding ah zei kodah an kan temtawn bik hnga?

Miphun dang he tahchun ngam zong a si rih lo mi kan nih mitlawm te miphun hi tha tein kan zoh tik ah hin, thanchonak leikam silo in tumchuknak lei kam deuh tu khi kan penh deuh cang tiah mino tam pi nih hmuh a si cang. Ni hin ni kan dir hmun in i mer lo in kan kal pi peng rih ko i kan du paoh in politics( Ramkhelkong ) kan tuah peng rih ko si cun, 2030 ahcun kan miphun hi ba rawhzet lawng a tang cang lai i miphun tlau kho zong kan si kho men. A ruangcu, innchung khar pakhat a si mi kan laimi hawi cio cio, pakhat le pakhat kan i rem lo i kan i doh peng ko ahcun hi innchung khar cu a thenthek dih cu a hau mi a si. Mino kan ca le a thanglai ding mi mansung tuk mi kan mino hna ca ah lung a fah tuk i chim leng le phuan zong ah kan thei ko na bu in kan i remh duhlo mi thil hi tlawngpal te langhter ka van duh ta. Kum 20 a tlingcang mi lawng siloin kum 17 a tlingcang mi tulio kan mino tha bik hna zong nih an thei ko cang lai tiah ka zumh.

Mahtlang, Mahpeng, Mahholh;
Nihin ni ah kan unau pawl miphung dang hawi (Falam, Tidim, Matu le thlanglei laitlang) pawl kan zohhna hlan ah kan mah Hakha-Thantlang zawtnak tu hi van zoh hmasa hna uh sih. Laimi kan phaknak paoh ah Khrihfa bu a tam ning le community a tam ning, lungrualnak (Unity) pakhathmanh nei ti a umbal fawn loh, a donghnak ah mah le mah lawng te seh i timh bu in a dih leng mang mi miphun kan si cang. A hram kan zoh a si ahcun, US, Canada, Denmark, Noryway, Australia le ramthumnak ummi kan miphun paoh paoh i an i buaipi mi hi Malaysia in a ra mi si lo, Yangon in a ra mi a si fawn loh, Laitlang kan chuahkehnak ram in kan i kenmi lungthin pi a si. A ruangcu, mifim kan rak ti mi hna kan pu pa pawl i an kan hruainak i a chuahmi (outcome) a si kan ti khawh.
Laimi upa dir hmun ah a dir mi kan Hakha-Thantlang kan zoh tik ah miphung huapmi ruahnak a nei mi an tlawm tuk cang, kutcang in rel khawh an si dih cang. Lung a fak tuk.  Kanmah Hakha-Thantlang hmanh ah Zo le Lai ti i kan i doh peng rih, i fonh le hmun khat rian tuan ti khawh lo ding tiang dir hmun hna kan phan cang. Zei ko dah a si? Fak pi in na ruah bal ve maw?

Laimi kan politik le kan biaknak i morality ( Lungthin lei dirhmun )

Ni hin ni ah kan Laimi a kan hruaitu kan zoh tik hna ahcun zumhawktlak mi hi kan um tuk ti loh kan ti ahcun kan palh tuk ti lai loh. Kan Lairam ah siangpahrang hmuh in kan hmuh mi hna, pastors te pawl zong zumh awktlak mi kan har tuk cang. A fawinak kan chimh a si ahcun, Laitlang le Lairam ca'h dinnak(Righteousness) auh pi ding mi, miphun pi zong nih ti hal in a hal mi auh pi le dir pinak in, materialism (Vawileicung chawva) ah an kal ngawt dih cang. An thei ko zong ah an hna an i cheh dih cang. Laimi nih kan i palh tuk tawn rua tiah ka ruah pi pakhat cu kan biaknak (religion) hi politics (ramkhel) colhcanghnak deuh ah Laimi pi nih kan hman.

Politics lei hruaitu pawl kan zoh tik hna ah Lairam pumpi lawng si lo in, kawlram pumpi ca ding tiang riantuannak in mah khua le mah tlang ca deuh in rian tuan kan tam deuh. Rampum pi ca tiang in rian a tuan kho mi le tuan ding ah commitment (pekchanhnak) a nei mi kan tlawm tuk. Mah cu zei in dah na chim khawh tiah bia halnak nan neih men lai ee. A hman mi a si, mah peng le tlang holh lawng hna pei thancho ter kan i timh mi le opportunity (caan tha le lam awnnak) kan hmuh paoh ah mah nih hui viar kan duh mi nih zei hmanh chim hau lo in a langhter dih mi a si ko. Mah peng le tlang dawtnak nih khua a hrawk loh, kan lungthin chung ah zei dang umlo in mahkhua le mahtlang dah ti lo cu ti a um mi nih a ra laiding mi caan ah remh khawh ti lo ding in thil tam pi a chuah ter khawh.

Laimi ca'h lungfak tuk mi zawtnak

Mono tam pi nih an vuivai mi le ceih cem mi, sinain langhan in an chimh ngam lo cem mi thil van zoh ta hna uh sih. A luancia kum 1990 in van zoh tik ahcun, Laimi u pa ram dang hna ah ca cawn kho mi, kan laimi nih ca thiam thiam tiah kan ruahmi kan pu le rual hna kan zoh tik ah hin, a tam bik cu Lairam ca zei tluk in dah rian kan tuan khawh lai le Laimi zei tluk in dah mino tam pi kan thanchoter hna lai tinak in keicu mah cu ka si, ka tuahkhawh le ka ti khawh ti mi lung put nei riang mang in, mah inn chungkhar pin cu mi dang ca ah zei hmanh hmuh khawh mi an nei ti lo. Sihhmanhsehlaw, pulpit cung in bia chim tu le an si peng fawn. Laimi nih kan pulpit suallam zong kan hrilhfiah than a ahu cang ruah tiah ka ruah leng mang. Ramthumnak ah an hmuh mi mirang ban tuk in an fale rual thiamhna seh ti mi pin cu zei ban tuk thil hmanh nih a thleng kho ti hna loh. A donghnak ah zei dah a chuah ti a si ahcun, ni hin ni politics le religion lei in rian a tuan tu kan zoh tik hna zong ah mi fim mi thiam an hmuh ko hna zong ah an kan tei lai, kan min an kan lan lai timi tihnak tam pi an neih ruangah, kawlram te in kutcang zat te lawng nih ram thumnak ah ca an cawn khawhnak a si. A cawng kho minih le kir le ram ca rian tuan timh hi a um kho loh. A ruangcu, an kir duh ti loh.

Cuhlanchung laimi dir hmun kha van kal ta rih ko seh law, a hlan i Hakha-Thantlang ah a nih a nih thil a ti kho mi pawl, hruaitu pawl kan zoh tik ah an fa le ca lawng  hoinak sang  an chiah khawh hna, an fa le ca cun zei thil paoh an tuah piak khawh hna. Mi fim mi thiam tak bochan awktlak a sikho ding mi hna tu sifak le cacawng kho lo in an caan tha vial te kan liam terdih hna. Sinatein, kawl cozah tha lonak cu kan chim peng fawn. A tu hnu, Malaysia in refugee sinak lak riangmang in ramthumnak kal hnu lawng lawng ah kan ram chung ah bawitlawng tlawng in a tlawng mi pawl zong an lau kho tuk cang. Pathian nih an mah lawng hi ti i an kal peng ko le bawi tlawn in an tlawn peng ko ahcun Laimi hi an thancho kho ti lai loh ti A phang ruang zong a si kho men, refugee sinak in ramthumnak kal hna an kan awnh mi hi. A palh zong ka palh  kho.

Mino nih kan in cuahmah mi le kan zun cuahmah mi  

A cunglei kan van langhter mi ban tuk khan, kum tamtuk chung kan laimi society ah mah innchungkhar thanchonak le mah peng le tlang thanchonak ti mi nih impact (a tuk, a pe) a tuah minih tuchun ni caan i laimi 3/2 cheu thum cheu hnih cu kan tuar dih, kan in dih. Mahcu lakah ngeih a chia tuk rih mi cu, nu le pa tiang zong nih fa le cawmpiak ah mah khua le tlang thanchonak ca lawng ah fa le te zong an cawn piak khawh cang hna. Vawilei i kan rak chuah hi meng 20, 30 ca lawng ah maw rian tuan timh piak kan si cang hna ti zong hi ka ruah leng mang. Democracy e, freedom e, zei e..kan ti nak kan ram hrawttu tak tak a si mi kan morality corrupted a si mi tha te in kan doh khawh ahcun democracy he cun kan i tlak ko lai. Ramkhel kong he ti an auh leng mi le an i ceih leng mi nih zei pi pa a chuah pi lem lai loh. A rawkcia mi kan lungthin put kha kan remh khawh lawng lawng ah ai tlakmi luatnak cu kan hmuh khawh ko lai. Mahhi, kan lungthin a rawktuk mi ruahnak pawl, thanchonak tiang an kan dawn dih mi hi mino nih kanral lian cem kan chiah hrim hrim a hau mi a si i mah cu kan doh awk tak tak zong a si mi a si.

Mino lung rual in doh hna uh sih;

Lai mino nih ti hal in kan hal mi Unity (Lunrualremnak) kan hmuh kho lonak a sual lam cu unity ti mi cu din falnak he ai peih tlai mi a si i a kan hruaitu a din fal lo ahcun lungrual tein zei tik hmanh ah kan zul kho lai loh. Laimi pi tak tak zong nih dinnak a tenhmi hruaitu tha kan i ngeihmi hna pawl hi kan tan pi a hau. Tangka ngeih deuh mi si i thil a ti khawh ca'h kan tem pi ding a si loh. Mi hlen hman, mi hrawkhrawl ti kan thei tuk ko na bu in, mah le tlang mah le khua ri ruangah kan ten pi hi thil sual tak tak pakhat a si.

Hakha-Thantlang i ral lian bik le ceih hma bik mi Zo le Lai ti i zuamnak zong hi kan ngawl awk a si cang. Mino chuahter mi a si loh i ka chim cang bantuk in hlanlio mifim deuh pawl nih chuahpi mi a si ti kan thei a hau. Hmun khat ah rem te in rian kan tuan tti ding le kuttleih in kan kal tti ding a si cang. Mirang holh van thiam deuh le thil tlawmpal te van ti khawh cang ka in bawi (hruaitu) si kan duhnak lung thin zong kan thumh a hau. Laitlang ah media a cak rih loh i Malaysia hi Laimi tam cemnak kan umnak hmun a si tik ah Malaysia hin i remnak le ramremhnak ah a tha bik mi hmun a si. Hruaitu ka si ai ti riang mang mi upa mi hrawkhrawl pawl refugee si ve tung i refugee sin in a miak lak rumro ai zuam mi pawl zong hi kan doh tti a hau. Hi ti ning te in kan community cio ah corruption a tam ahcun Laimi temhpi ram mi zei hmanh kan ngeih ti lai loh i thutsawh i izoh i ivuak lawng lawng a tang cang lai.

Mino a hlei in tangti hna uh sih. Kan pu le kan pa le nih an tuah khawh lomi mi phung dang pi ah kan ruah leng mang mi hna, Tidim, Falam le tlanglei laitlang mi pawl zong hna i dawt khawh le kut chanh khawh kan i zuam a hau cang. Kan miphun hawi nih thil a tuah khawh cun kan tan pi a hau. Falam pa le Tidim pa nih a tuah khawh mi paoh doh hi thil dik a si loh.

Kan doh ding mi lakah a lian bik mi pawl cu; Favoritism (theihngelh mi ca lawngah rian tuan duhnak), Partiality (thleidennak), Nepotism (ruahnak bi tuk in rian tuannak), Chiefship-oriented mind (Bawi lawng siduhnak lungthin) le popularism ( Lar lawngduhnak lungthin) pawl hi kan doh bikcem ding a si tiah ka ruah. Vawilei cung pakhat le pakhat an i tahnak zong mino thazang in rel a si bantuk, barawh zet te a si mi kan nih Laimi zong mino tam pi thancho ter duhnak lung neih lo mi chan in kan chuah a hau, kan kal tak a hau cang. Mino nih ral tha te in kan tan a hau, kan doh a hau. Nangmah le keimah kha kan ram nih herhbik mi kan si ti lungput hi khawika a kal mi a vak mi Lai nu Laipa nih kan ngeih hrim hrim a herh in a herh tuk cang ti forhfial kan duh hna.

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Kawlram chung (Burma ramchung) ah Khrihfa phunglam zei tik in dah a rak luh i, zei tin dah a rak luh, mizei nih dah an rak luh pi timi zohfian aherh caan a um theu tawn. Mah ka hin Khrihfa kan ti tik ah hin Protestant he tant lo he an za tein telh chih in Khrihfa tiah a huap in ka auh mi a si. Minung tampi nih Protestant khrifa phung a si lo ah American Baptist Missionary riantuannak Kawlram arak phanhnak cu theih cia a si. Nain mah hi kawng zong hi tlawmpal kan telh chih tho tho lai. Atu ka tial duh chan mi cu zei bu zei bu ti kha si lo in, Khrihfa min put in Kawlram an rak panh hmasetnak kawng kha ka tial duh mi a si. Chin miphun hna hi thil tuah hma set mi pawl hi kan uar ngai hna. A herh lo mi tiang khin a hmasa kawng ah hin kan tang tawn, ka ttial duh khun kan chim duh khun i, kan i chawr. US phan hmasa, Malaysia phan hmasa, Norway silo ah Europe phan hmasa mipawl nih phanh hmaset ruang ah fimdeuh le thil tikhawh deuh ah iruah sual, ruahsual a um tawn. Mah cu cu adik lo ngai mi theory pakhat asi. Khua tla hma sa, a fim hma sa, mi raltha hmasa tbtk.. in a hmasa kawng ah hin heh tiah kan buai tawn. A hmasa kawng ah tantuk le buaituk zong hi thiltha cu a asi lo. Thil a si hmasa mi paoh a dik dih a tha dih tiah kan ruah ah cun cu zong cu kan palhnak a si theu tawn. Thil cheukhat, le micheukhat a si hmasa timi pawl hi theihtlei ca taktak lawng ah a tha tihi biahmai thi caah chim ka duh.

Nestorian Khrihfa pawl Kawlram phaknak
Nestorian Khrihfa pawl hi AD kum zabu 10 hlan le hnu chan lio ah hin an rak thawng tha ngai i, Europe ram in Tuluk ram tiang Tang Siangpahrang chan tein an rak kal i an kalnak hmun hma paoh ah Khrihfa phung an sinak te te an neh an tanta[1]. Vailam tahtung hmanthlak hi an thlan mual lung ah an tialta tihi hmuh khawh a si[2]. Mongol ralkap pawl nih Bagan an rak tuk i an rak hrawh dih hnu in Bagan chan kum zabu 13 ah a rak dih. Bagan a rak chim tu Mongol Tartar ralkap lak ah hin Nestorian ralkap pawl an rak um len ti hi Mongol tuanbia ah zohfian khawh a si. Cu lio Mongol ralakp bawi Genhis Khan i a nupi hi Nestorian khrihfa nu a si i an ralkap ah Nestorian pawl cu an rak um len tiah Khrihfa tuanbia thiam Dr. David Wu nih a chim[3]. Bagan khua thing i Shwezikhong pura pawng ah hlan lio ralzam pawl an rak I dubnak lungkua ah vailamtah hmanthlak ai suai mi te te hmuh khawh a rak si, nihin ni ah cun hmuh a fawi ti lo. An nih hi Kawlram vawlei arak lam hmasa bik mi Khrihfa cu an si.

Portugal Khrihfa Chawlet Pawl
1435 kum ah Nicoto di Conti timi pa hi Italy ram in Kawlram Pegu ah a rak tlawng i Pegu ah cun thla 4 a cam ta ti a si.[4] Portuguese mi Vasco Da Gamma nih 1498 kum ah  Europe ram in India lei ratnat rililam a pemh khawh in Portugal pawl hi Malakaram(Malaysia) le Kawlram lei ah tamngai an rak phan hna tihi hmuh khawh a si. Dr. Kawl Thang Vutaa nih doctorate dissertation a rak tial mi chung ah Portugal pawl Kawlram ah an rak phak i Roman Chatholic siangbawi pawl nih an rak zulh hna ning tampi in hmuh khawh a si.[5] Kum zabu 15-17 kar ah hin Roman Catholic missionary pawl le khrihfa pawl tampi Kawlram ah an rak um i khrihfa milu zong a thong in an rak karh tihi Dr. Vutta tialnak ah kan hmuh khawh chih rih.

Amah atialnak ahhin 1548 kum ah hin Fransis Xavier timi RC father pa pakhat cu Pegu ah missionary ding in an rak thlah. Nain zei dah acang thai tihi theih khawh a si lo. Father Sigismond de Calchi le Father Vittoni hna hi RC Barnabite missionary an rak si i 1722 kum hrawng in Pegu ah heh tiah thawngthabia an rak chim. Siangpahrang in chung minung hna he zong an rak I kawm kho ngai. Barnabite missionaries pawl nih hin Kawl Siangpahrang pa cu thlai mi suimilam nganpi “Grand Father Clock” timi an rak pek, thlalang tuahnak an rak chimh, cun kut tial zoh hna zong an rak chimh ti a si. Cun,  1741 kum ah RC missionary pahnih hna cu ral ah an thi ti a si. Kawl cafang hi ai nam khawh ding caah an rak ser cun Kawl ca le Latin ca dictionary zong chuah khawh ding caah an rak i zuam i cafang tampi an rak leh i an rak khawmh khawh ti asi.

1600 kum zabu chung ah hin Philip De Breto timi Portugal chawlet pa hi Kawlram ah a rak lawr ngai ti hmuh khaw  asi.[6] A nih hi Kawl nih cun Nga Zin Kaa tiah an auh. Taung Ngu chan ah a si i Taung Ngu siang pahrang pawl he an rak i kawm ngai i, a luarpar kai in atu Rangoon khuachung viral Tanlin ramkhi a rak lak i a rak uk. Taung Ngu Siang Pahrang pakhat asimi Natshingnaung cu ral nih a dawi caah Philip De Breto sin ah a phan i De Breto sin ah cun Khrihfa phung ah a lut ti a si i. Khrihfa min ah John Tuan Tihatu tiah arak i sak. De Breto cu Thanlin ah a um i Kawl pura pawl a hrawh hna, missionary pawl ai chiah hna, ralkap zong ai chiah i siang pa hrang bantuk in a um. Mah caah cun Rakhine siang pahrang zong nih a rak doh i, Taungngu siang pahrang zong nih a rak doh ve tik ah a donghnak ah ral asung. Taung ngu siang pahrang nih Ngazin ka cu a tlaih i fung in a lu le taw hlen lak in a sawh hnu ah khua leng ah a thlai i nili hnu lawng ah a thi ti a si.(Vutaa) Natshinnaung cu vainam in thah a ing i a ruak cu tu Thanlin Tawah University pawng i pura ah an phum ti asi.
Protestant Khrihfa phung a rak luh ning
Mirang nih Kawlram a rak lakhlan kum sawmli hrawng ah 1845 kum hrawng ah hin Kawlram ah Roman Catholic khrihfa 2500 an rak um cang ti a si.[7] Kawl rampi cu a rak ceu hlei rih lo. Ralnih a rak khuh. Cu lak ahcun Nitlak lei in Ceunak thawngtha cu a rak phan. 12 kum ah hin American Bord of Foreign Missions nih Adoniriam Judson le an nu cu India lei ah missionary rian tuan ding in an rak thlahhna nain July 13, 1813 ni ah hin Judson te nuva cu Kawlram lei ah an ra. An ratpah ah an nau ai rawk ti a si.[8] Judson hi Kawlram caah ceunak thawngtha arak phurh i rehtheih harsetnak tampi a rak ing. Laitlanglei tiang thawngtha a phanh khawhnak zong hi a mah riantuannak ah tampi aa hngahchan tihi hmuh khawh  asi. Kawl Bible ca a rak leh. Kawl le Mirang dictionary arak tuah i, thlarau tlau tampi a rak tleih hna.  Abik in Karen, Asho Chin pawl le Mon pawl sin ah thawngtha arak chim. Adoniriam Judson riantuannak le Baptist khrihfa bu akarhnak cu Burma Baptist Chronicle cauk ah tamlak te ai tial ko cah tampi ka tial ti lai lo. A nih hi Kawlram ah missionary rian atuan bu in a nunank Pathian ram caah aliam. A nun chung ah nupi pa thum a nei. A nupi hmasa hi Anna Hassatile a si i 1826 kum ah a thihtak. A pa hnihnak cu Sarah Hall Boardman a si I 1845 kum ah a thi. Emily Chubbuck a thitthan[9]. Apriltha 1850 kum ah Judson cu rili cung khual a tlawn pah ah a thih caah a thlan mual a um lo.

Kan unau Asho hna hi Laitlang lei khrihfa kan si hlan ah khrihfa an rak tamtuk cang. Mah caah hin Lai mi lak ah khrihfa sihmasa mi hi Tedim mi si lo ah Sihzang zan si tinak in, Asho miphun an si tiah a dik deuh. Dr. Chum Awi nih a tialnak zong ah fiangtein a tial chih. Carson le Laura cu Laitlang lei an kai hlan ah 1888 kum ah hin Tayet khua ah an um hi Asho Chin hna sin ah rian tuan an rak thawk. Kum hra arauh hnu 1899 kum ceu ah Hakha ah an rak phan.[10]

Kawlram khrihfa tuanbia hi tialmi a tamngai ko cang nain athar in theih than ding ah ka vun tial than. Ahmasa kan chimcha khan zei thil paoh hi a hmasa a um tawn lengmang nain a hmasa paoh paoh hi an tha thlu tawn lo bantuk in an chia thlu tawn ve lo. A si hmasa ti paoh hi Pathian dengmang ah ruahnak kan ngeih lo a hau. Khua le ram ah si she, pengle tlang te te a fa tuk mi te te ah kan ruahnak kan bit ter chin thluah mah hlei ah cu bantuk a fa tuk mi hna caah sihmasa mi heh tiah kan uar peng rih. Minung nunank hi tuanbia tial mi a si. Mi zei hi dah Pathian nih a rak hman i, mi zei hi dah thil tha taktak a rak tuah kho tihi a biapi deuh mi thil a si ti hi a donghnak chim ka duh.
Chrihchan te te



[1] Jenkins, Peter (2008). Book of The Lost History of Christianity: the thousand-year golden age of the church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and how it died. New York: Harper Collins. pp. 64-68. ISBN 978-06-147280-0.
[2] Hill, Henry, ed (1988). Light from the East: A Symposium on the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Churches. Toronto, Canada
[3] Dr. David Wu, "Mongolia - GBGM Staff Briefing Summary", Accessed January 31, 2005
[4] G.E. Harvey. History of Burma. nd. P. 98.
[5]Vutta, Kawl Thang.  Brief History of the Planting and Growth of the Church in Burma. D.Miss. Dissertation. Fuller Theological Seminary. 1983.
[6] Introduction to Burma.
[7] Wikipedia. Roman Catholicism in Burma
[8] ShweWa, Maung. Burma Baptist Chronicle. P. 24-25
[9] Adoniriam Judson. < http://www.nndb.com/people/794/000114452/>
[10] Dr. Chum Awi. In Search of the lost souls of the Chins-Centenial essay.

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