Mainstream media coverage of the leaked document includes:
Burma 'orders Christians to be wiped out' | The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. (The Sunday Telegraph)
Myanmar's military government denies suppressing Christians | Myanmar's military government denied on Wednesday that it suppresses Christians, saying all citizens enjoy religious freedom and that a recent report by a British group was aimed at tarnishing the country's image. (The Associated Press)
Other Christianity Today articles on Myanmar and the Burmese people include:
The Town that Loves Refugees | Christians in Utica, New York are resettling the world one displaced soul at a time. (February 15, 2007)
Red-Light Rescue | The 'business' of helping the sexually exploited help themselves. (December 19, 2006)
Burma's Almost Forgotten | Christians find themselves battered by the world's longest civil war and a brutally repressive regime. (March 1, 2004)
Compassion Confusion | We should serve the needy even when it has bad political consequences. (Aug. 28, 2001)
The Homeless Church of Myanmar | In, after decades of cruel military regimes, democratic elections were held in Myanmar, and the National League for Democracy party won with over 80 percent of the vote. The military ignored 1990 the election results, seized control, and has set up the illegitimate (and wrongly named) State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) government. (Oct. 5, 1998)
Ethnic Politics Suppresses Outreach | The stunning success of Christian outreach among some ethnic minorities in Asia has fueled religious resentment and repression. (May 19, 1997)
Christian History & Biography has an issue on Adoniram Judson, a missionary to the Burmese.
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Rather than "independence" I believe it would be more accurate to say that the KNU (representling most of the Karen people) seeks a degree of autonomy in a federated, democratic, free and peaceful Burma.
Debbie
Posted: March 15, 2007 9:56 AM
I too had the opportunity to visit Burma last year. It is a beautiful country with beautiful people living under horrific conditions. There are many Christians and ngos there. Please pray for them for strength and protection. And it doesn't hurt to lobby our own govt. here to change it's policies but alas there is no oil there and Burma is just too close geographically and politically to China to make any meaningful action on the part of the US likely.
George
Posted: March 14, 2007 10:41 AM
Thank you for giving such information that unfortunately does not appear in the mass media.
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