evidence: In April 2021, youth groups founded the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) in parts of the state long associated with the Chin National Front/Army (CNF/A), an ethnic armed organisation formed in 1988 that has acted as a mentor to these younger freedom fighters. Ethnic Chin living in areas just outside of the state in neighbouring Sagaing and Magway regions have also joined the CDF to form the CDF-KKG, based in the Kabaw Valley and Kalay and Gangaw townships. (Sharing a 510km-long border with India, Chin State also has ethnic ties to the Mizo and Kuki people of the northeastern Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur.)