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Our goal is to promote a national dialogue everywhere to find a way out of the conflict that has been going on for four years and is causing great suffering for the entire nation, for people’s livelihoods, for education, for the economy, and for the future of young people.
As fighting continues in northern Myanmar, along China’s southern border, the government of Beijing is grappling with a flood of refugees, as well as questions about how Chinese authorities should respond to the conflict.
A Burmese Catholic recounts how, behind the calm and the apparent freedom of movement, the most savage oppression, which prevents any step “outside of the lines,” is hidden. “We are like half statues, half human beings. We can feel and see the suffering of our people, but we cannot speak.” This is part of a testimony on the difficult situation of “religious freedom” in Burma – renamed Myanmar by the military junta – obtained by AsiaNews. The name of the source is not mentioned for security reasons.
