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  • proper noun A language spoken in India, especially Mizoram, and adjoining parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

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Examples

  • Mohammed Gamal Al Din, or "Mizo" and Ehab "Bob" Abdel Hameed, talented percussionists, can always be caught exchanging smiles with one another.

    unknown title 2009

  • Giving another instance, Vanramchhuangi says a boy, who failed in his test, was forced by his teacher to take his pants off and wear a skirt, considered the most humiliating punishment in the strict patriarchal Mizo society.

    Spare the rod, save the child 2009

  • We appeal to the jawans of the central forces, particularly the Naga and Mizo battalions, to disobey the orders of the rulers and to withdraw from Chattisgarh.

    Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

  • A full Mizo battalion with expertise in countering guerrilla warfare has been deployed in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh state to contain Maoist extremism.

    2 Chhattisgarh cops commit suicide , hundreds more expected to follow Abhay N 2007

  • The constable left a suicide note written in his Mizo language.

    2 Chhattisgarh cops commit suicide , hundreds more expected to follow Abhay N 2007

  • The Adivasis have been deprived of essential commodities as the Salwa Judum activists forced the closure of their weekly shandies, Sankar Naik said and demanded the withdrawal of Mizo and Naga forces from the Chhatisgarh, probe into the murders and lootings committed by the Salwa Judum, recall of migrated Adivasis and provide succour to them.

    Salwa Judum Terror drives 50,000 adivasi's into Andhra Pradesh Abhay N 2007

  • In Mizoram, the church was actually successful in bringing Mizo National Front Terrorists to the negotiating table and getting them to sign a Mizo accord which has largely lasted to this day.

    Religious Manifestations of Terrorism in India Shantanud 2007

  • The Maoist leader also appealed to the jawans of Central forces, particularly the Naga and Mizo battalions, to disobey the orders and withdraw from Chhattisgarh.

    Maoists warn of more attacks Abhay N 2007

  • This large ecoregion represents the semi-evergreen submontane rain forests that extend from the midranges of the Arakan Yoma and Chin Hills north into the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh the Mizo and Naga hills along the Myanmar-Indian border, and into the northern hills of Myanmar.

    Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests 2007

  • The Mizo constable, Laltha, drawn from the IRB shot himself dead in Konta area in Dantewada district.

    2 Chhattisgarh cops commit suicide , hundreds more expected to follow Abhay N 2007

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