My Thailand Diary

I got this email this morning… from Free Burma Rangers An Organisation which is dedicated to helping the IDP (internally displaced people in Burma) I’m saddened by this news because I thought maybe the army would be too busy cleaning up after the cyclone and will give the IDPs a break. But no, the fighting goes on ! Unbelievably evil.

While survivors of the deadly cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta and coastal regions of Burma struggle for survival, and the international community struggles through the obstruction and mismanagement of the SPDC to assist them, villagers in many areas of Karen State continue to be the target of the Junta’s brutal policy of terror and oppression.

The Burma Army has launched numerous attacks against villagers and IDP populations throughout northern Karen State. Hundreds have been displaced, villages and homes have been burned down and villagers killed as the Burma Army has stepped up its efforts to terrorize villagers into hiding in Toungoo District. Hundreds have also fled in Nyaunglebin and Papun Districts as the Burma Army mortars villages, captures and kills villagers, and continues to expand its network of military camps into the farms and villages of the local Karen people.

I talked with my children about whats happening and even my son7 said why don’t the leaders care for their people? Daughter13: its just going to get worse for them if they don’t treat their people well. True. Sometimes children are truely wiser than people who rule countries…..