Burma takes a page from North Korea

(Pic: Burma.Karen-refugee)

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"...."I think it's going to become a North Korea very easily unless the world gets involved .."

Burma's Democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, just marked her65th birthday; she is under house arrest. The junta government ignored her election win in 1990 and marked her as an enemy and she informs that Burma takes a page from North Korea Patrick Klein with Vision Beyond Borders says, for some reason, their misdeeds have gone "under the radar." "I think it's going to become a North Korea very easily unless the world gets involved and says, 'Enough is enough.'"

This comes against the backdrop of a reported military crackdown against Burma's Karen, many of them Christians. "There's genocide taking place. They're wiping out whole villages. We have a report of over 3300 villages being burned to the ground and landmines everywhere. Over half a million people have died." The Gospel brings hope amidst dangerous circumstances. "We've just had a request from an evangelist to help provide 20,000 New Testaments. He wants to evangelize soldiers." (More info. next Buenas Nuevas  August edition .)