Posted on 01/20/2007 7:13:51 PM PST by Flavius
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. Entitled "Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma", the incendiary memo contains point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state.
The text, which opens with the line "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practised", calls for anyone caught evangelising to be imprisoned. It advises: "The Christian religion is very gentle – identify and utilise its weakness."
Its discovery follows widespread reports of religious persecution, with churches burnt to the ground, Christians forced to convert to the state religion, Buddhism, and their children barred from school.
Human rights groups claim that the treatment meted out to Christians, who make up six per cent of the population, is part of a wider campaign by the regime, also targeted at ethnic minority tribes, to create a uniform society in which the race and language is Burmese and the only accepted religion is Buddhism.
In the past year, an estimated 27,000 members of the predominantly Christian Karen tribe were driven from their homes in eastern Burma.
In Koh Kyi village, in Arakan State, a monk backed by the military burnt down the local church. In another state, 300 monks were allegedly sent by the regime to forcibly convert the populace, all of whom belonged to the Chin ethnic group, which is mostly Christian.
The document, shown to The Sunday Telegraph by human rights groups, may have been produced by a state-sponsored Buddhist group, but with the tacit approval of the military junta. The regime has denied authorship of the document – which also calls for teenagers to be prevented from wearing Western clothes – but has made no public attempt to refute or repudiate its contents.
The dictatorship has long been accused of large-scale human rights abuses. In power since 1988, the generals annulled the National League for Democracy's sweeping 1990 election victory and jailed its leader, the Nobel peace prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains under house arrest. Last week she was accused of tax evasion for failing to hand over any of her Nobel prize winnings to the authorities.
Eha Hsar Paw, a Karen Christian, who fled her village while heavily pregnant to a refugee camp near the border with Thailand, said: "The journey here was very difficult. It was hard to leave our village, but if we had stayed there we would all be dead."
Now that's what I call a "Burma Shave".
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
The majority religion in Burma is Buddhist.
Buddhism, another religion of peace.
wonder if anyone has contemplated a pro choice movement?
or freedom of anything?
choice of red lada?
Will Barak Oburma condemn this?
That's odd. They usually seem to be.
Now what are they scared of? Nothing can stop the move of Our Lord and Saviour....nothing on this earth.... ;o)
That's odd. They usually seem to be.
Hmmmm. Now that you mention it, the Buddhists weren't peaceful in Vietnam, either. In the pocket of the North Viet Communists, agitating and manipulating to bring down the government of Diem, who was Catholic.
When a Buddhist monk burnt himself alive—something he had pre-arranged with a photographer, so the picture would be published in America—Diem's wife, Mme. Nhu, described it as a "barbecue."
I liked her style.
Buddhism is anything but tolerant toward Christianity in majority-Buddhist nations.
"In Bhutan, all public worship and evangelism by non-Buddhists is illegal. When Bhutanese are discovered to have converted to Christianity, they are denied government benefits--including public education. Christians have been fired from their jobs and some have been expelled from the country. Two Christian evangelists were arrested...and imprisoned for six months without trial and finally received sentences of at least three years."
In Sri Lanka, "since 2003, more than 170 acts of violence have been recorded against Christians. In 2006, Buddhist clerics and politicians revived efforts to enact a federal anti-conversion law...which called for sentences of up to five years and/or a stiff fine..."
[Quotes from Voice of the Martyrs}
So much for those peaceful and tolerant Buddhists.
Secret document hell!!! It's on just about every page of their terrorist training manual the koranus!!!
Don't you know that their Armed Forces have been taken over by a Muslim general not too long ago?
People seem to be confusing Burma and Thailand - they're different countries.
The Burmese government is a military junta of socialists including a few nutballs, backed by China.
There have been a variety of very bloody wars that you never hear about going on with various non-ethnic Burmese groups that live on the edges of Burma, most prominently the Karen, who are Christians.
The Burmese government persecutes the Muslim minority in Burma as well as the Christians.
Call Richard Geer and find out what is going on. He is a boo-dist isn't he?
Hey the Buddist's ain't about to let the Moooooooooslim's upstage them. They're bound and determined to prove they're as capable of slaughtering Christians as any other scumbag manmade religion in the world !!!
Just think what will happen if Obama ever occupies the White House.
Most distressing news.
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