V. Hun Nununglam Kawlgam galkap Diaspora Zomite’ Dinmun le Identity
SLORS-SPDC hun sung in Kawlgalkap-Zomi innkuan sungah Zomi evengelists te tungtawn in a munmun ah kha khanlawhna hong om thei bilbel kik a, Christian biakna le Zomi ngeina hong pom kik mahmah uh ahi hi. Kawlgam khuapi mun tuamtuam ah galkap quarter-te ah Zomi galkap innkuante tung tawn in Christian fellowship/ church planting khawng ki bawl kawi kawi hi. Kawlgam sung Zomi omna mun ah Christian pawlpi thak piang hi cih paunak khat hong piang khia hi. Tua dungzui mah in Kawlgam galkap sung ah thusim policy khat hong om a: ABC STOP! [tua hun a popular American Beer ABC STOUT zui] ahi hi. A pen AIDS, B pen Hepatitis B, C pen Christian [especially Chin Christian] ahi hi. Tua hi a, Kawlgalkap-Zomi or Zomi Kawlgalkap-te a ding promotion ki barred banah, civilian service lam khawng ah hong hemkhia in hong ki nawlkhin ta ahi hi. Kawlgalkap sungah zakhanna promotion le position na deih leh Buddhist suak ding kisam ahi hi. Nang mah mah Burmanized ding a, na min Kawlmin le na biakna Buddhist hi leh lametna om mah mah cih ding ahi hi. Hi bang thu le la te in leitungbup ah Diaspora Zomi hong piankhiatna ding thu kipatnate ahi kik zel leuleu hi.
VI. Zomi Diaspora Nihna: Pilna Sinna le Kumpi Nasepna
Zomite khamtung Zogam pan tangval khempeuh galkap bebek in ih lenkhiat, diaspora khiat khit nungah a nihna Zomi Diaspora pen pilna sinna ahi hi. Zomi khangnote in high school zawh khit pilna sin in College le University sangpi te ah ih pai hi. [Ni dang hun in numeite middle school 7th std ong peuh leh, Nursing Training College le Teacher’s Training College te ah ki kah thei ahi hi. Ne Win BSPP hun tak ciang in mualtung mite hamphatna teng beisa ta hi. Tangvalte high school man ciang DSA lut a galkap bu officer suak zongh tam sim mah om in, University graduate khit ciang OTS lut a bu suak zongh ih tam sim veve lai hi.Tuni dong mah a tapa te uh High School pan in DSA sang lut ding, Degree ngah ciang OTS lut ding a lunggulh Zomi nu le pa ki om lai ve ve hi.
Zomite galkap ih uk dan bel a bei thei nai lo cih ding ahi hi. US ah gam belte a ding in galkap lut ding bel compulsory hi lai mawk ahih tawh kizui in tangvalte bek hi loin, numei nangawn in galkap ih lut ta hi. Kawlgam ah galkap lutlo teng in kumpi nasem bekbek in mun tuamtuam ah ih om hi. Ih om nana ah Christian biakna kin ih hihman in, pawlpi piang kawi kawi ahi hi. Tua hi a, Kawlgam sung Christian pawlpi khantohna ah Diaspora Zomi kumpi naseem ‘government servicemen’ te ii role pen a thupi khat ahi hi. Kawlgam sung township 300 val a om sung ah Zomi omlohna khua om khol lo ding ahi hi. Zomi a om nak leh Christian cih theih sa ahi hi. A diakdiak in Kawlgam laizang keugawgam khuapi lian te ah pawlpi pian zawh kum 100 val khin vive hi napi, pawlpi mi 10 kim peuh a om tam mah mah mawk a, Zomi kumpi nasemte hong tun’ ciang in pawlpi nosuak tuam mah mah ahi hi: gtn, Monywa, Mandalay, Myingyan, Magwe, Minbu, Pakoku, Meihtila, etc.
VII. Zomi Diaspora Thumna: Gamdang Paina
1990s-2000s SPDC hun sung in galkap kumpi thak hong kah khit sumbawl, paibawlna hoih nawn lo ahihman in, gam dang ah sum thalawh hun hong tung leuleu ahi hi. Galkap kumpi in gamdang zin ding hong phal ta a passport hong pia ahih ciang in, minamdangte mah tawh kibang in Zomite zongh gamdang ih zin ziahziah ta hi. Kumpi nasemte, khangnote bek hi loin sumbawl pawl khat, sumhau minthang kimkhat nangawn gamdangah sum thalawh nasem in ki pai khia ngeingai ahi hi. Biakna lam theology sang kah dingin zongh tampi mah gamdang ih pai ngeingai a, gam ciah kik pawlkhat a om mah bang in, a ciah nawnlo a om suak in pawlpi kipan zong pawl khat ki om ahi hi. Minamdangte’n Zomite leitung bup ah pai khin ci in hong pi muh mah mah bilbel kik uh hi. Passport zumpi ah passport ngah sazian en le’ng mi 10 lak ah Zomi 2 le 3 kihel hamtang ahi hi. Percentage in tuat le’ng Zomite gamdang pai tam pen ding ahi hi.
VIII. Zomi Diaspora Lina: Refugee Gambelhna
Tu laitak 2000s nunung lam leh 2010s kipat hun pen Diaspora Zomite gambel fefugee fashion hun cih ding ahi hi. Gamdang tai pen fashion khat hong suak khin mawk ahihman in, gambel ding a a tai zo teng pen ki eng mah mah in, mi hamphate ih ci hi. Gam thumna tungte bang Pasian’ thupha taktak hi ih ci hi. Ahitakpi ding hiam? Refugee cih pen mi cimawhte, galtaite cihnopna hi a, ei a tai zo teng pen a cithei zaw deuh teng, inn le lo zuak ding nei teng, u le nau sum thagui hat zaw deuh teng, sum leitawi na’ng a muzo teng, etc. ih hi hi. A cimawh tatak teng pen ih gam ah ki nusia ahi zaw leu leu hi. A mau teng hoh refugee ding in UNHCR te kiang ah nget sak ding a hoih zaw tam maw? Gam thumna tung khat ih om ciang in UNHCR te’ thusiamna leh gamthumna kumpi [e.g., US kumpi] hehpihna tawh kitung ci in ih tangko zel hi. A tatak in ci le’ng kuama thusiamna le hehpihna hi tuan peuhmah lo a, a thu om sa khat tung tawn in, Kawl kumpi gitloh paulam in refugee thukhun tawh kituak teng in asylum ngah kha ih hi lel hi. Kawlgam kumpi policy hong kilaih le bang mah thusiamna/ hehpihna cihte om nawn lo ding a, a sawtlo in Zomi Diaspora hun khat hong bei thei ding ahi hi.
IX. Diaspora Zomi le Pawlpi
US leh leitung mun tuamtuam ah paunak khat om ahi hi. Sen mi [Chinese] te inn kuan li le nga on leh an sai ‘restaurant’ kipan pah ci hi. Korean mite li le nga ki tuntuah le uh pawlpi ‘church’ khat kipan lian uh ci hi. Zomi li le nga ih ki tut tuak ciang bang ih kipan lian hiam? Tu ni in a mun mun ah Diasora Zomi Pawlpi ki pan kawikawi cih kimu ahihman in minam mantan’ nading pan hong keem ding thu khat ahi hi. Diaspora Zomi pawlpi le community in Zomi Christian min tawh ih identity hong kipsak tuam ding ahi hi. Kawlgam ah Kawl Christian sanggamte’n paunak thak khat nei uh a: “Zomi nih a om leh pawlpi thum piang…” cih ahi hi. Cihnopna in Zomite pawlpi kikhen/ a thak kipan pahpah, ‘phuan’ hat lua sakna ahi hi. Bang bang ahizong in pawlpi phuat pahpahna in Zomite identity khat hong suak khin ta cih ding ahi hi. Tua in Zomite manthan lohna ding hong keem ding ahi kik bilbel hi.
X. Korean Diaspora le Diaspora Korean Pawlpi
Ei mai ah a na diaspora khin a, minam identity vai tawh a na buai masate lak ah Koreante zongh kihel uh a, ih etteh theih ding thu pawl khat om khin ahi hi. Tu ma kum 60 lai 1950s hun Korea gal sung le gal khit ah anneak tuidawn le nuntakna haksa lua sa ahihman un tu hun ei Zomite mah bang in tua lai hun in a cithei zaw deuh teng gamdang tai in diaspora ngeingai uh ahi hi. A tamzaw mikanggam teng mah ahi Canada, USA, UK, Australia, NZ, leh Europe gam tuamtuam banah, Latin America, South America, lam zongh ah tai theihna peuh ah lono na, tuidam luanna mun delh in diaspora khin uh ahi hi. Mun tuamtuamah Diaspora Koreante mangthang tuan lo uh hi. A hang in a mau a tun’ nana uh a pawlpi kipan pah uh a, community hoih tak in nei ahihman uh cih kimu khia ahi hi. Gam tuamtuam tung Diaspora Koreante in a mau om nana vuah Korean mi mah in om uh a minamdang suak tuan loin amau’ identity kiptak in nei uh hi.
Kamsiatna tawh Mexico gam tung Koreante in tu ni in a mau le mau Korean ka hi uh ci ngam lo uh hi. Mexican minamneu khat in kikoih, kiciamteh ta ahi hi. A hang a kikan ciang in a kimukhia thu khat om a, tua in a mau Mexico gam a tun cil lam un pawlpi kipan lo citciat uh hih tuak hi. Christian hi mello/ tamlo khawng zongh hi thei kha ding ahi hi. Tua in tu ni Diaspora Zomite a ding lesson khat ahi hi. Diaspora Zomite ih tun’ nana mun ah Zomi pawlpi/ kipawlna khat manlang pen in kipat ding kisam mah mah ahi hi. Tua pawlpi/kipawlna sungah Zokam pau in Zolai tawh thukizaksakna neih ding hong thupi mah mah ding ahi hi. Tua hi kei le mailamah Zomi hi nawn lo ding a, native minamneu khat ki suak thei ding ahi hi.
XI. Leitung Diaspora Mission Etkakna
Leitung ah Christianity kizelna etkik ciang in diaspora tung tawn in pawlpi piang kawikawi cih kimu thei ahi hi: gth, Antioch pawlpi. Kum zalom khat hun Jewish Christian-te kigawtna le haksatna tuamtuam hang tawh gamdang peem in a diaspora na uh pan leitung mun tuamtuam ah Pasian gam zaina piang ahi hi. Sen gam China ah Korean pawlpi piankhiatna thu etkik ciang in, Diaspora Korean khat tungtawn in piang khia cih thu kimu ahi hi. Tuni in Kawlgam, Vaigam bek hi loin leitung gam 30 val ah Zomi pawlpi hong piang khia khin suak ahihman in Pasian min ih phat hi.
Zomite pen nidang in saklam pan Kawlgam Irawaddy le Chindwin gundung zanggam ih zuat lai in ih khekhap bekmah kimu lai ahihman in ih sanggam Kachinte in ei pen ‘Khang’ hong ci uh hi. Khekhap cihnopna ahi hi. Ih sanggamte’n hong mansuak khin uh a, a mangthang mite in hong ngaihsun uh ahi hi. Tuni in Diaspora Zomite ih tuntunna ah ih khekhap a kician lai ding hiam? Ahihkei leh ih mangthang sak lel leuleu kha diam? Kawlgam kumpi kiukzia hong kikhel toto in hoihlam hong manawh leh ih gam ih ciah kik sawm ding hiam? A hihkei leh ih ciah nuam nawn kei lel ding hiam? Ih ciah nawn a, ih ciah nawn kei zong in Zogam pallunsakna ding pen tuni Diaspora Zomite’ mawhpuak, vaipuak hong hi ding hi.
Tuni in Diaspora Korean-te in khang nihna 2nd generation khangno tampi tak in a gam uh zuan kik ziahziah ta uh a, a gam khantohna ding nakpitak in a pilna a siamna a hatna uh tawh thanuamtak in na sem ziahziah bek uh ahi hi. Diaspora khangno te zong gamdang ah pilna siamna nakpitak in sin ding kisam ahi hi. Ei Zomite’ thaneemna lian pen khat in pilna siamna sin thadahna ahi hi. Migam ah tung khin in 1) kampau le lai lim sin nuam lo; 2) nasepna ah sum thalawh ding bek, nitha tung ding le khasum tamzaw ding bek ngaihsun in nasep siam ding ngaihsun lo; 3) biakna kikhopna te ah lungsim takpi tawh kihel zo lo; 4) Pasian in missionary khat in hong puak hi cih ngaihsutna nei zo nai lo; 5) gam khangto te ih tun’ ciang ei zong a khangto khat in kituat in kinasia sak, ki lian sak, ki pilsak, ki hausak, etc.; 6) Ei culture hoih te kep sawm nawn loin mi’ culture hoih lo teng zui pah, ciing pah; 7) Zu dawn pah; etc., etc.
XII. Zomi Ngeina Identity Lui Khat: Zu Nekna
Zomi ngeina identity lui khat pen zu kamnam kinken ding ahi hi. Zomite pen zu duh mah mah le nek le dawn siam lo pawl ih hi citciat se lai hi. American Baptist Mission pan sangmangte Zogam hong tun’ ciang in Zomite zu nakneklua hong sa ahihman in Christian sungah zu nek ding hong kham hi. Zomi Christianity ii identity pen ‘zu ne lo’ ahi hi. Zu ne mi/ inn le Zu ne lo mi/inn tawh Christian le Christian lo ih kikhen hi. Tu in ih kikhen thei lai mah diam? Zomite’ lelh pen khat in zu ahi hi. Tu in zong leitung muntuamtuam ah ih tung ngeingai a zu nek nuamsa vive dan zongh kitam tuak ve ve mawk hi. Mun khat bang ah Zomi zu kidek zo nawn lo a, zato ah kidek liang hi. Zato tuah khit a sawt lualo in zu dawn kik a si nangawn ki om lai hi.
Korea Christiante’n zu ne lo uh hi [a ne simsim khat le nih simloh]. A mau zongh ei Zomite mah bang in mualtungmi hi uh a, khuadam ahihman in zu zongh duh mahmah uh hi. Tua banah a ngeina ngiat ah Zomite mah bang in zu tawh thu gen pawl ahi uh hi. American sangmangte ei kiang hong tun hun phial pawl mah in Korea na tung uh a, Koreate zu duh lua a muh uh ciang in ei mah bang in zu nek na kham uh hi. Korea Christianity ii identity zongh nu nekloh mah ahi hi. Zomite tulai tak gam bel in ih diaspora ih belhna gamte en le’ng Mikang gam vi ve ahi hi. Mivom gamte ah gam ih bel kei hi. Korea le Japan zongh Mikang gam mah ahi hi. Ih tun tun na ah ei’n mi Christian nuntakna ih pantah hiam? Ahihkei leh mi’ pattah ih kul lai zaw pian hiam?
Mai lam ah Kawlgam kumpi kiukna hong kilaih to to leh Zomi Diaspora hun khat hong bei thei ding ahi hi [tu in zongh hun kikhel nuam mah mah ta ahi hi]. Tua hun ciang in tu a gam thumna tung khinsa te pawl pen hong ciah nawn khol lo ding a, hong tun’ beh lah om nawn kei mawk leh migam milei ah mangthang ding lauhuai ahi hi. Zomi pawlpi kiptak in phut in kipawlkhoptheihna hong thupi mah mah ding ahi hi. Tua hi kei leh tu khang sung bel kician lo ding in, khang sawnte hun ah beilam manlam manawh ding ih hi hi. Tua Diaspora Zomi pawlpi sungah mailam ciang Zokam a ki pau nawn diam?
XIII. Diaspora Tungtawn in Minam, Gam le Pawlpi Khantohna
Korea minam le gam khantohna pen 1988 Olympic pawipi innteek a sepna pan tha khat thu in ki khai vat ahi hi. “Ei leitung ah pusuak ding, leitung in ei gam hong lut ding!” cih pen Korean-te ‘motto’ hi a, president Noh, Tae-Woo hun sung a hanciamna ahi hi. Gam mite passport pia in gamdang ah zin ding phal a, gamdang mite gam sung ah lut ding entry visa phal uh hi. Tua tak ciang in a gam uh pilna, siamna, business, etc. a khantoh mah bang un missionary khah khiat zongh nakpitak in hong khang ziahziah ahi hi. Tu laitak in gam tuamtuam ah Korean missionary 24,000 val om hi. Tua mah bang in Korea gam sung ah gamdang mi tu laitak 1.5 million om ahi hi. Diaspora tungtawn in Pasian gelna om hi ci in Korea pawlpi in um hi. Tua ahihman in gamdang mite a ding pawlpi ah a mau pau ciat tawh biakpiakna bawl sak uh a, a mau minam pastor cial sak ngiat uh hi. English service zong neih zawh ding hanciam uh ahi hi. Topa’ Sawlpina ‘The Great Commision’ pen sangmang sawlkhiatna ‘sending missionary’ bek tawh tangtung zo lo ding a, sangmang sanna ‘accepting missionary’ tungtawn in tangtung fulfilled pan ding hi cih pen globalization paradigm muhna ahi hi. Sawltakte tangthu 13 sung ah en le’ng Antioch pawlpi ah sawltakte gamdang diaspora mi vive ahi hi: Barnabas—Cyprus pan; Simeon— Niger, African mi; Lusius—Cyrene mi; Manaen—Roman mi, Saul—Tursus khua mi, etc.
Tu ni in Korea gam sung ah pawlpi 50,000 val om lak ah, mission nasepna ah kihel tatak pen 15% bekmah hi pan hi. Gam sung zongh ah pawlpi khangto loin kiam lam manawh zaw ta [2000s hun sung khempeuh] ahi hi. Tanglai Antioch pawlpi pen a ettehhuai model Diaspora pawlpi khat cih thu Korea pawlpi in ngaihsun pha mah mah kik ahi hi. Tu laitak Korean mi 8.5 million leitung ah Diaspora in ki thehthang uh a, minambup ii 10% ahi hi: leitung mun tuamtuam gam 175 ah pawlpi phuan kawikawi uh suak ahi hi. Sengam China ah Sente mat thongkia khat tung tawn in pawlpi piang ahi hi: Russia, Hawaii, Mexico, Middle-East, America, Europe, Africa gamte ah peem kawikawi uh a, Mexico gam sim loh mun khempeuh ah pawlpi phuan kawikawi uh ahi hi. Philippines ah pawlpi 70,000 val om a, gamdang ah missionary a puak zo kei uh zong in naseem sumthalawh in a pai tampi om ahi hi. Tua te in a gam a ding gamdang sum zong bek hi loin, Christian upna leitung mun tuamtuam ah kizelsak ahi hi. Pilipino te pen Zomite mah bang in 90% val Christian ahi uh hi. Tuni in leitung mun 35 ah Diaspora Zomi bangzah ih om hiam? Ih thalawhsa sumte ih gam ah ih khak ciang in ih gam in gamdang sum a thalawh suak a, migam ah ih cihtakna tawh Topa Pasian’ gam zaisak ih hihlam ih ki ngaihsun kha hiam?
XIV. Thukhupna: Leitung ah Diaspora Zomi Mawhpuak [Vaipuak]
Kawlgam, Vaigam le leitung mun tuamtuam ah tuni in Zomi pawlpi bangzah a om ta hiam? Diaspora Zomi pawlpite in leitung mission tawh kisai bang ngaihsutna le muhna gelna vision ih nei hiam? Tuni in Diaspora Zomite zongh leitung mun tuamtuam ah Christian upna kizelsak ding in Pasian in hong puak hi lo kici thei lo ahi hi. Tua ahihman in ih nuntakna, ih om zia, ih gamtatzia te limtak in kidop mahmah ding hong thupi ding ahi hi. Mite in ih nuntakna hong en in, laisim in hong sim uh a na hi hi. Ih kam pan gen khiat sang in ih nuntakna in aw ging tak le ngaih tak in gen khia zaw ahi hi. Tuni in Diaspora Zomite ih dinmun koi ciang ahi a, ih vaipuak bang ciang ahi hiam?
Diaspora Zomi sungah,
Cope Suan Pau
18 Jan 2012
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