Their Own Private Apocalypse-The Cyclone in Burma

By Chuck Colson
Christian Post Guest Columnist
Thu, May. 15 2008 ;

With each passing day, the news from Myanmar—that is, Burma—gets worse: As of Sunday, May 11, nearly 300,000 people were reported as dead or missing. The United Nations estimated “that between 1.2 million and 1.9 million were struggling to survive in the aftermath of the storm . . .”

As appalling as these numbers are, what is equally, if not more appalling, is the conduct of the Burmese junta: It is actively hindering relief efforts. Late last week, the UN’s World Food Program stopped sending food aid after the junta seized previous shipments.

However this particular controversy is eventually resolved, the world has already learned what some Christians already knew: The junta does not value the lives of its people. the rest