Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Revelation 22:12-14
“I think that we have to explode… You can’t just despair, my sons. You have to do something. We have to find a way by public means to do things needed to be done. If you don’t do that nothing will happen.” This was said by Ludhu Daw Ama, 91-year old renowned Burmese public intellectual and writer, as quoted on DVB radio from her home in Mandalay on April 26.
Thursday, April 27
Myanmar troops have uprooted more than 11,000 Karen civilians in their biggest offensive in almost a decade a campaign punctuated by torture and killings, according to reports from inside the country and Thailand. Troops in eastern Myanmar have torched Karen villages and sent inhabitants fleeing into jungles in a battle to suppress a decades-old insurgency, say reports from Free Burma Rangers, a group of Westerners and ethnic volunteers who provide aid to displaced people in the country, formerly known as Burma.
These people have fled their homes due to the onslaught, which began last November and has recently intensified, the Free Burma Rangers said. About 1,500 refugees have fled across the border to Thailand, and aid officials fear others will follow in coming months to swell the more than 140,000 already in Thai refugee camps.
Observers say the scale of the attacks is the largest since a major offensive against the Karen in 1997, and suggest that the military is trying to secure the hinterland east of the country’s newly established capital of Pyinmana.
A recent report by Free Burma Rangers said the Myanmar army destroys any Karen homes it comes across. “If civilians are encountered on the way, they shoot at them,” it said.
Praise:
- God for groups like the Free Burma Rangers that are willing to put their own safety at risk for the good of these displaced people in Myanmar.
- The Lord that this information reaches the outside world and causes Christians everywhere to pray for these peoples needs.
Pray:
- For these people in the jungle, not knowing what will be next. Pray they will call upon the Lord. Pray the Lord will undertake, care, heal, guide and protect them from dying.
- The hiding people will be fed will be clothed and will find a place to live in peace.
- The Burmese military junta will call off its campaign against innocent civilians.
- The Lord will bring back the peoples of Burma into right relationship with their Creator. Many do know Him already but most of them have not accepted Him (yet) or have not heard about Him.
