Inform: Friday

I challenge you to research the crisis in Burma. Over the past ten years, the military regime in that country has systematically wiped out over 3000 villages, inhabited by minority ethnic groups, in an act of brutal genocide. Hundreds of thousands are displaced within the country, and over a million have fled Burma altogether. This country has the worst child soldier problem in the world, with an estimated 20% of the army comprised of children. The country has been described as a cross between the harsh government control of North Korea and the disastrous humanitarian situation in Sudan. Massive numbers of people have been killed, detained, raped, forced into slave labor for the military, have stepped on landmines planted in by the military, or have had their houses and villages burned down. This crisis is too serious to be ignored.

For more information, check out http://www.uscampaignforburma.org.