BURMA: CHRISTIANS RAPED, FORCED LABOR, ROBBED

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J. Grant Swank, Jr.

"Rape, forced labor, land confiscation and forced relocation continue to be ‘widespread and regular.’

"According to one Kachin, ‘rape happens in every area where there is an SPDC army camp.’ In January this year, for example, a Kachin woman was raped at gunpoint by a soldier of SPDC Light Infantry Battalion 37.

"The trafficking of Kachin women from Burma into China, often to be sold as ‘wives’ or sex slaves, is also widespread and alarming, with more than 50 cases reported so far this year. Since March, 12 Kachin women have been rescued, four from the China-North Korea border," per Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

Christians continue to be tortured worldwide, just as Jesus predicted. "They hate me. They will hate you." "He came unto His own but His own received Him not."
In Burma "fresh evidence of violations of religious freedom and human rights against the largely Christian ethnic group" increases.

It is reported to press that the State Peace and Development Council despises Christians. That’s interesting, considering the title of that agency. "In October 2005, the SPDC’s Northern Commander, Brigadier-General Ohn Myint, reportedly said in a speech that he did not want to see any crosses or other Christian symbols on roadsides in Kachin State."

Such atrocities do not usually reach the Western media. Therefore, all the more that believers get out the facts concerning Christians being specifically targeted for mistreatment.

"In an interview with CSW, a former Burma Army Major who has defected, confirmed the widespread use of rape by the SPDC and the use of child soldiers. He said that SPDC soldiers are given a quota of new soldiers to recruit each month, to help the army expand. Soldiers go to railway stations, bus stations and other public locations and simply grab whomever they can find.

"’Sometimes the children are so young that they still pee in the night,’ he said. ‘That gives you an idea of the age of the youngest child soldiers.’ They also take elderly men who are not really fit to serve as soldiers. ‘Many of the recruits are too young or too old to be in the army,’ the defector said."


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ALLAH: "Fight, slay Unbelievers wherever ye find them.Seize them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
Qur'an, Sura 9:5

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John 3:16