sentences:  In April 1999, the people of Than Tlang erected a wooden cross monument on Vuichip Mountain with support from all of Chin State, commemorating one hundred years of living as Protestant Christians.However the military not only prevented them from celebrating the anniversary but proceeded to bulldoze the cross to the ground, imprisoning several pastors and any who protested.The regime erected a pagoda on the north hilltop over Than Tlang, where a local Burmese monk stayed.