The Displaced and Rangers Celebrate Christmas Together - FBR

Dear all,
Merry Christmas from here in Toungoo District, Northern Karen State, Burma! We are still up here as there is more Burma Army activity against the population. We spent the last three days watching the road while some of the team treated patients and did the Good Life Club Program (GLC). This part of Toungoo district is at the edge of the black zone and the brown zone- we are with the last IDPs before it becomes almost totally Burma Army controlled. Read more

Refugees protest Catholic Charities Center - Pittsburgh Post Gazzett

Refugees from Myanmar picketed the opening of a new welcome center for clients of Catholic Charities at its Downtown office yesterday.
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, who dedicated the Susan Zubik Welcome Center in honor of his late mother, went out to meet the protesters, who spoke little or no English. Counting children, they included more than 30 ethnic Karens, who carried handwritten signs such as, "We demand a professional translator who speaks our language. Read more

IDPs at Noh Boe Camp in Thailand

IDPs from Ler Per Her camp who fled to Thailand Noh Boe temporary refugee camp during SPDC and DKBA attacks on their village in June 2009. These IDPs suffer from eye infections and skin disease and are in need of help. Phan Foundation is helping, but funds are limited. Donations can be made at;

www.phanfoundation.org.

Who will stop the Dictators? - FBR

We are putting together this Day of Prayer for Burma from inside an ethnic area of Burma that is under attack by the Burma Army. We are training multi-ethnic relief teams and going with them to bring help, hope and love to the displaced. The people of Burma live in terror and are attacked, raped and killed by their own government. Who will come to their aid? Who will help them? As talks are held, who is defending those under attack? In Burma, no one protects except the pro-democracy resistance. In spite of this, there is no large scale support for the resistance groups and thus no way to provide adequate protection to the people under attack. Read more

KNU Submission to US House of Representatives

Submission to US House of Representatives 21 Oct 2009
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS KAREN NATIONAL UNION...
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Dying Alive Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEwqI98vNvs&feature=related