New fears of clampdown in Burma
Thursday, 14th June 2007
By: Nick Mackenzie.

NEW CLAIMS of a clampdown on Christians in Burma (Myanmar) have been made, with a publisher of books on Christian theology threatened with 12 years’ imprisonment unless he desists.

Meanwhile other sources claim that the military regime there has begun to compile a list of known Christians, ranging from pastors and children’s homes to individual Christian families. It is believed that the list follows an official pronouncement that ‘to be Burmese is to be Buddhist’.

The persecution of Christians in Burma is not new: many Christian missions were expelled in 1966 and since then written permission has been necessary for any gathering of more than five people. Because of this many Christian groups there now operate ‘underground’. the rest