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Journey to homeland for Christmas
The majority Burmese migrants in Mizoram are Chin ethnic stock in Burma and are Christians. They saved money from their wages and have bought gifts and clothes for relatives back home in Burma.
Khonumthung News: 01 December, 2006
Burmese migrants working in Mizoram,
India are trooping back
home to celebrate Christmas. Keen on joining their families in Burma
for X-mas celebrations the migrants are in a joyous mood.
“I don’t really feel good to be here during
X-mas. I would rather spend quality time at home with my family. So I am
preparing to go back to Burma,”
a Burmese migrant in Aizawl told Khonumthung News.
According a Burmese migrant in Aizawl, spending time at home with his family during the X-mas festival is pleasure and bliss.
The majority Burmese migrants in Mizoram are Chin ethnic stock in Burma and are Christians. They saved money from their wages and have bought gifts and clothes for relatives back home in Burma.
Some Burmese migrants, who are better off can go back to Burma while manual workers, with low incomes miss out on a chance to join their families during Christmas.
“I have been here for only two or three months, so I don’t have enough money to go back home”, lamented one Burmese migrant in Aizawl.
Thousands of Burmese migrants are said to be living in Mizoram. Most of them are road construction workers, weavers, gold smiths, housemaids and traders.
Christmas celebrated once a year on December 25 is auspicious for Christians.