Thursday, February 15, 2007

Wiping out Christians: Brutality in Burma
By CHARLES COLSON
Breakpoint
Published February 15, 2007

A few years ago, I told "BreakPoint" listeners and readers the story of Burma's Christians, in particular the ethnic group called the Chin. As I said, "for many years, crosses dotted the mountaintops and villages in the Chins' homeland," which made sense in a region where 90 percent of the population is Christian.

That's changing, not because the Chin have lost their faith—quite to the contrary. It's changing because the Chin, along with other Burmese Christians, are the preferred targets of one of the world's most brutal regimes.

Things have not gotten better since that first "BreakPoint" broadcast. In fact, according to a leading British newspaper, things have gotten much worse.
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