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Burma's military leaders
Posted on 01/14/2007 5:55:15 AM PST by NYer
Burma's military leaders
LONDON, UK (ANS) -- A shocking new report about a range of tactics used by the military regime in Burma to suppress Christianity is about to be released in London.
Called “Carrying the Cross: The military regime’s campaign of restriction, discrimination and persecution against Christians in Burma” it cites a document, allegedly from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which has been widely circulated in Rangoon with the headline “Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma.”
It begins: “There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practised.”
The report will be launched at a meeting of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma to be held in the Wilson Room, Portcullis House, House of Commons, London, on Tuesday January 23.
“The meeting will be chaired by John Bercow MP,” says a report from www.AsianTribune.com. “The report will be presented by Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s Advocacy Officer for South Asia and author of the report, Benedict Rogers, and a delegation of Chin and Kachin activists from Burma will present evidence of human rights violations.
“‘Carrying the Cross’ is the most comprehensive analysis of its kind, and the first to examine the military regime’s policies towards Christians of all denominations and ethnicities in Burma. It follows reports in recent years on the persecution of Muslims and the imprisonment of Buddhist monks.”
“Echoes of Hitler and the Nazis”
The story goes on to say that the report claims that Burma’s regime is “shaped by a fascist mentality with echoes of Hitler and the Nazis,” found in the junta’s hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities. Citizens who do not conform to the regime’s version of Burman Buddhist nationalism – which, the report argues, is a “perverted and distorted form of Buddhism” – face “potentially serious consequences.” The regime’s tactics range “from churches in Rangoon finding it difficult to obtain permission to renovate their buildings, to pastors in Chin State being killed,” the report claims.
The report quotes a plea from six Christian organizations in 2006, who wrote a letter to the junta’s Senior General Than Shwe saying: “We simply cannot let things go on without doing anything. This is because Christian associations have been suffering, and we are feeling the pain deep in our hearts.”
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“Carrying the Cross” has received praise from several leading public figures, with Foreword written by Baroness Cox, a member of the House of Lords who has visited Burma’s border areas many times, and Preface by the former Anglican Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt. Rev. John Perry.
John Bercow MP, the Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy in Burma, who visited the Thai-Burmese border with CSW in 2004, says: “As this report makes clear, all the people of Burma are suffering at the hands of this brutal regime, whatever their religion or ethnicity. But there can be no doubt that Christians are singled out for an extra dose of discrimination and barbaric abuse. CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) has made a unique and vital contribution to the campaign for freedom in Burma by publishing this evidence. The United Nations and the international community must now act to bring an end to the sadistic behavior of these dictators.”
The report’s author, CSW’s Advocacy Officer for South Asia Benedict Rogers, says: “It is time that the United Nations Security Council pass a resolution on Burma calling for an end to the grotesque human rights violations perpetrated by the regime. We urge the United Nations to investigate the violations of religious freedom in Burma and to put pressure on the regime to change. Burma’s people, of all religions and ethnicities, have suffered in silence for too long.”
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"We urge the United Nations to investigate the violations of religious freedom in Burma and to put pressure on the regime to change"
Which will guarantee absolutely nothing will get done.
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I admit I was wrong on both counts!
I wonder if there isn't a similar document circulating among some politicians in this country.
That must make the left very happy
"Buddhist nationalism "
???
No such animal.
There is a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes which draws many of the Catholic faithful. The following is from
Understand The Times
An International Missionary Outreach Dedicated to Evangelizing the Lost and Equipping the Church for Discernment http://www.understandthetimes.org/newsinreview/newsinreview34.shtml
"March 4, 2006 - 40,000 pilgrims flock to Our Lady of Lourdes shrine
More than 40,000 people coming from 13 dioceses in Myanmar gathered in Nyaunglebin, 145 km north of Yangon, to mark the 104th anniversary of a shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes."
Our Lady Of Lourdes your Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ granted you the honor of revealing His miracles of healing at Lourdes. Now the faithful of Burma need a healing miracle. Not just for each body and soul. But also for the Body of Christ and the Soul of the Nation. They face a bitter enemy who desires their destruction.
Appeal to your Son who will not refuse the petition of His Most Holy Mother. You who wiped the tears from our Savior's eyes, ask that He wipe away the tears of the faithful.
Do not let the devil and his own destroy the heart of Christian devotion and love in Burma. Protect these humble saint of God, who suffer for your Son's sake. Shield them while they lift the Gospel high for all to see. Guide them while they declare your Son's gift of salvation. For His beloved children are your children too. In Jesus name, amen.
And it is getting pretty scary in USA, with so many people anti-Christian here.
It could be that way in America if Hillary becomes President.
The only thing all evil rulers have in common is their hatred of Christianity.
"Reminds me of Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda talking about a form of meditation practiced by Buddhist warriors before they went into battle."
Actually, there *were* temples of Buddhist warrior monks in Japan up until at least the late 1500s, so Kline's character was right and the Hollyweasels wrong...again.
There is when the governing council -- the Sangha -- is appointed by the Junta. Burmese Buddhism is taking on many of the uglier characteristic of the well known "Religion of Peace".
To be honest, radical restrictions on religious freedom would come from a GOP canidate like McCain also.
Amen. Great post lastchance, thanks.
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