Dimapur, October 2 (MExN): Extending solidarity with the Burmese people who are protesting against the military junta, the Nagaland Baptist Church Council today congratulated the Buddhist monks for the non-violent agitation taken out them recently.
A press statement issued by the NBCC Peace Affairs Director, Rev Kari Longchar prayed that the bold non-violent leadership taken by the Buddhist monks to prevail like the Church leaders prevailed in Manila in Philippines some years back over the rule of the Marcos family and gave the Filipino people a new future.
However, the NBCC prayed and hoped that the military repression that has started against the Burmese protestors may not turn into another massacre of lives and violations of Human Rights as happened in 1988, when thousands of protesting students and others were killed by the Burmese security forces.
The NBCC also expressed its deep concern for the Nagas in Burma and the rest of that nation under the tyranny of the Burmese military junta. The NBCC urged all to pray for the Burmese people. The NBCC said that the Nagas have ample reason to be concerned as what happens in Burma, which borders Nagaland, will affect the Naga people ‘sooner or later for good or ill’.
“We naturally think of our kith and kin who live in an extensive area of northwest Burma that is scandalously neglected and brutally treated by Rangoon,” the NBCC, Peace Affairs Director said and added that an increasing number of these Nagas across the border are now Christians.
“Three Nagas for the first time in the history of Burma won in the election for Parliament 17 years ago as members of Mme Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLFD) party,” said Kari Longchar.
