Email received, asking for prayer:
The situation in Burma is deteriorating rapidly. As the junta prepares for the upcoming elections in 2010, they are bent on removing any form of opposition. The monsoons are ending, thus the ethnic cleansing is accelerating.
Two weeks ago, many of the IDP/refugee families, thinking/feeling that the hostilities had died down, left the relative safety of Safe Haven to return to their villages in Burma. They were gone one day when the fighting renewed. We do not where they are or if they are safe.
But, even more grave than the situation of the refugees who left the orphanage grounds is the plight of the villagers, chased from their villages deep inside of the Burma but were not able to cross the river to the relative safety of Thailand. These villagers are internally displaced, hiding within the war zone. Their situation is desperate.
Additionally, there is a massive outbreak of something like swine flu around the Thai/Burma border, 100km past Mae Sot.
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