26 May 2005

To Lay Down Your Life







Kawthoolei, a Land Without Evil, has long become a land of mines and a killing field. Burma, once a rice bowl of Asia, is now the Least Developing Country in the world. 52 years of fighting a civil war, 40 years under the military dictatorship and for many of us living more than 1½ decades in exile as illegal immigrants or displaced people is long enough.
The only way to have lasting peace is through having mutual love, understanding, forgiveness, recognition, negotiation and reconciliation. On behalf of our Karen people and all the ethnic groups of Burma (Myanmar) we would like to request both the Military Regime and all the parties concerned to stop fighting and find a peaceful solution to the long existing problem.
We would also like to humbly and earnestly request all the international Community to be willing to serve as “Peacemakers” and help us. We are tired of hearing news of both the soldiers and civilians (Bamese, Chin, Kachin, Karen, Mon, Rakhine, Shan), our own people, brothers and sisters living in the same country, being injured, tortured or killed in the battles. We hate hearing news of fighting, human rights abuses and atrocities committed without discrimination of age, sex, race, and religion. Please help stop the civil war in Burma and help restore peace and stability to Burma. It will be good, not only for us, but FOR ALL.
We are badly in need of your immediate response, action and kind help. Help us through any ways and means you can. Most of all we need your prayers that God will intervene and change the situation in Burma for His own glory and honor. May God bless you all as you continue to serve Him through helping your needy brothers and sisters.


I believe these words to be Dr. Simon’s own. I saw them on a yellowed Karen calendar blowing bamboo poles of his house and residence for visiting missionaries, aid workers and teachers.

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