VBB & Kirk Cameron
Wes and Pat from Vision Beyond Borders have a meeting today with Kirk Cameron to discuss strategies for bringing media attention to the human rights violations in Burma. Please pray that this would be a fruitful meeting!
FBR REPORT: Widespread Forced Labor and Extortion in Western Burma
The Arakan Free Burma Rangers team has documented widespread forced labor and extortion in their mission area during October, 2009
The team interviewed villagers in Paletwa Township who testified to forced labor in constructing the army camp at Doechawnwa, as well as having to provide bamboo and other building materials. (Paletwa is in southern Chin state, but is an area populated by Arakan, Chin and other ethnic groups. Some Arakan consider it part of Arakan State).
Victor pastor speaks of abuses in Myanmar
“These people have been abandoned, victimized and forgotten,” he said of the Karen and Shan ethnic groups who’ve drawn the genocidal wrath of the country’s army. “They have been broken, and the world just lets it go by. I can’t do that anymore.”
