Army Escalates Attacks on Villages

(Jubilee Campaign USA ) – We at Jubilee Campaign have become increasingly concerned about reports of new attacks on the mostly Christian Karen and Karenni peoples in Burma . Forces of the ruling military junta have targeted a number of villages in these areas, seizing property, burning paddy rice and forcing villagers to flee their homes and take refuge in the jungle. We are also troubled by suggestions from a number of sources that the junta has significantly under-reported the death toll in Burma from the December 26 tsunamis that devastated many nearby coastal regions in Indonesia, Thailand and India. For more information about these worrisome developments, and suggestions for prayer on behalf of the beleaguered people of Burma , read on.