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This guys are Godsend <3. I wrote in another thread so I'll write it here too; FBR's vehicles are not really distinctly coloured like white or something but rather looks camouflaged to suit the terrain better like a technical like in this situation. But they have some distinctly coloured ones too but I didn't see them that much. And normally their vehicles just have crescent and cross on their windows on the back doors and a small AMBULANCE stickers on top of the front window and on back doors. They use these kind of camouflaged ones on frontlines; I saw at least 3-4 of them coloured like this but with some minor indicators on the places that I said above. This one is just a bit odd to me, normally they had those indicators; this maybe a support vehicle they used to bring supplies. Camouflaged ones thanks u/ddsgf9876 for the close up pic. Uncamouflaged ones.
Hello friends, Currently the Baghuz ordeal is at center stage on the SCW. Helping out SDF treat people medically is this (american. man and his family, who go by the name of the Free Burma Rangers. Up to this point many international volunteers have come out to Rojava to help YPG in a medical only role, including many EMTs from America and Europe, but I had yet to hear about these Free Bruma Rangers before the Baghuz situation. What have yall head about them before now? And what is your overall impression about their service? Thanks.
Thank u so much for come ranger Karen's
On a sticky 90-degree day last November, the sun blazed high over a village in northern Karen, a province of 7. 5 million people in southeastern Myanmar. At the edge of a riverside clearing, farmers dressed in rags, sweaty and soiled, trickled home from the fields to their thatched-bamboo huts for lunch. They chatted and laughed freely—until a mortar exploded 50 feet away. Rangers entertaining village children. Preparing for a recon mission. Karen villagers lining up for an FBR medical clinic. Karen freedom fighter Saw Nay Moo Thaw. A school in the village of Tha Da Der. Within seconds men in Myanmar Army uniforms strafed the village with semi-automatic gunfire. Shouting soldiers dragged women to the ground and held pistols to the mens heads. The platoon leader wandered from hut to hut, using a torch to ignite grass roofs. Then something strange happened. A young blond girl—dressed in black and wearing flip-flops, her face streaked with grease—suddenly leaped to the top of a boulder, holding a bow and arrow. Narrowing her eyes, she pulled back and fired. “Way to go! ” A lean, fit American guy, dressed in running shorts and an Army green T-shirt, emerged from the sidelines, clapping and cheering like a proud parent at a soccer game. “Did you see that? She jumped up like Robin Hood and just nailed the guy! ” This was the 52-year-old founder of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) a humanitarian relief outfit operating in Karen and other Myanmar states. Ill call him Scott, which is not his real name. (Because the FBRs work involves crossing into Myanmar illegally and could be shut down at any time—and because of the security risks I observed FBR teams take behind enemy lines—I agreed not to reveal the identity of the groups founder or members of his family. The blond girl is Scotts 12-year-old daughter, and what Id been witnessing was the kind of attack that has occurred many hundreds of times in the countrys ethnic regions—in the border states of Karen, Kayah, and Shan, among others, whose rebel militias have resisted Myanmars military since the country gained independence in 1948. Even as Myanmars government has made headlines for its recent reforms, the fighting has continued in some areas, and a full-fledged war has erupted in Kachin, where 90, 000 people have been displaced since June 2011. This time, however, the arrows were blunted and the bullets blanks. The mock village burning was the elaborate launch of the final two-day exercise at FBRs six-week training session, at a place called White Monkey Camp. A former U. S Army Ranger and ordained minister, Scott founded the Free Burma Rangers in 1997. Run by a staff of Western evangelical volunteers and funded mainly by Christian churches, FBR trains teams of ethnic rebels to go toward the front lines, help evacuate internally displaced people (IDPs) treat the sick and wounded, perform reconnaissance of enemy troops, inform villagers and allies of their whereabouts, and document the Myanmar Armys carnage with video, photography, and written reports, which they transmit to news organizations, NGOs, local governments, and church groups around the world. The FBRs work is dangerous. Rangers are often armed with whatever weapons they can find—shotguns, 22s, AK-47s—and have been the target of enemy fire on a number of occasions. Since 1997, 13 Rangers have died in the field—one caught and tortured to death by the Myanmar Army, others killed by land mines, malaria, and a lightning strike. Scott runs five training camps each year, with the largest, held each November, at White Monkey Camp. This time there were 76 trainees in attendance, ranging in age from 18 to 36, representing seven of the countrys 135 ethnic groups. Most of them were rebels sent by the Karen National Union (KNU) one of the largest movements fighting for autonomy from the Myanmar government. Over the previous few weeks, the trainees had attended seminars in strategic reconnaissance and wilderness rescue and received specialized instruction from volunteer medics, engineers, photographers, and videographers. Beginning at 4:30 a. m. each day, theyd also undergone grueling physical conditioning, including climbing canyon walls and hours of sit-ups, push-ups, and trail runs. During the final mock-fighting exercise, they wouldnt sleep or eat much. “Foods a crutch, Ranger, ” Scott said. He calls everyone Ranger. His Ranger name: Tha U Wah A Pa. It means Father of White Monkey. White Monkey? Thats his 12-year-old daughter, who earned the nickname crawling around this jungle as an infant. As the smoke cleared, veteran Rangers split up to oversee one of 19 test stations for, among other things, orienteering, security, and rappelling. I headed over to the land-mine station, run by a shy, slender woman named Hsa Geh, who is 29. When she was 16, Myanmar soldiers murdered her parents and little brother in their Karen village during an invasion similar to the drill Id seen today. One sister was raped and killed, the other shackled and imprisoned at a Myanmar Army base, never to be seen again. Geh escaped and lived on the run for two years before the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) took her in. She joined the FBR six years ago. “Talk about tough, man, ” Scott said as we watched Geh put her team through the paces. “A lot of our Rangers have stories like hers. ” Moments later, at the rappelling station, Scott—calves and biceps bulging, abs as ripped as a young Marines after basic training—was unhappy with the tie-off. After adjusting the line, he dropped over the edge of a river bluff, sans harness, and eased down, hand over hand, then smoothly climbed up before he allowed the first recruit to clip in. Id arrived at the camp a few days before. Id spend the next week here, then trek with Scott and his recruits deeper inside Karen to the village of Tha Da Der, the first stop on a three-month FBR relief mission. It would be a rare look at the front lines of one of the more unusual relief efforts in the world—a humanitarian movement with both Bibles and guns. I MET SCOTT IN Shan State in 2007, when I spent four days with him as he trained Shan State Army-South rebels for a relief mission there. My first impression: he is one Jesus-loving badass. On that trip, he told me about his U. S. Army career, his relief work in Southeast Asia, the triathlon hed won, and the mountains hed climbed. At times he would begin to pray spontaneously. The only son of a Texas oil speculator turned preacher and a Broadway star (his parents met before his mothers USO show during the Korean War) he was born in Texas but prior to his first birthday moved to Thailand, where his parents worked to build schools and cultivate Christians. “Back then, Thailand was a lot like here, ” Scott said, gesturing toward the surrounding mountains and jungles. “I learned to ride, swim, and shoot when I was five. I already knew that I wanted to be soldier. ” By the eighth grade he was an Eagle Scout. Ten years later, in the '80s, he was leading an elite airborne strike force in Central America. A few years after that, following a stint as a U. Army Ranger, he joined Special Forces and relocated to Thailand. During his time in the Army, he began participating in triathlons—winning the Panama Studman—and climbing. He has summited Nepals 21, 247-foot Mount Mera, Alaskas Denali, the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, and Mount Rainier (twice in one day. When he retired from the Army in the early '90s, he earned a postgraduate ministerial degree from Californias prestigious Fuller Theological Seminary, then moved back to Thailand to work in Karen and Shan refugee camps on the Thai border. In the mid-1990s, the Myanmar Army initiated a campaign to weaken rebel forces in the ethnic regions. Its a conflict that goes back centuries, between the central Burmans—who account for almost 70 percent of Myanmars population and are largely Buddhist—and the 135 ethnic minorities in the states, who are also predominantly Buddhist but have their own languages, traditions, and rites. Tensions escalated in 1947, after revolutionary hero Aung San, whod crafted a constitution for a federal democratic Burma, was assassinated. Following years of upheaval, a military coup in 1962 put dictator Ne Win in power, backed by a junta of ruling army generals. Win turned Burma into a police state, censoring the media, imprisoning political rivals, and declaring war on rebel ethnic armies—a war that has continued, with varying degrees of violence, ever since, and which many believe is as much about the states resources and key border locations as it is about quashing ethnic rebellion. The repressive regime, which changed the countrys name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, has been most violent in the states of Karen and Shan. Since 1996, according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium, an alliance of NGOs that provides aid to refugees and displaced people, 3, 724 villages have been torched, with more than a million people displaced and a large but unknown number dead. Scott entered this tragedy in 1997, during one of the most ruthless outbreaks of violence, when the Myanmar junta—which was renamed the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) that year—launched a major offensive in Karen, Kayah, and Shan, slaughtering thousands. He heard the sounds of mortars and gunfire while working with Karen refugees near the Thai border, stuffed a pack with supplies, and headed toward the fighting in Myanmar, where he saw some of the 200, 000 IDPs. “I had four backpacks full of medicine, so I figured I would respond, ” he said. On the way, he met a lone Karen rebel. Together they hiked to the front lines, where they treated refugees until the medicine ran out. The idea for the Free Burma Rangers was born. As we talked in his solar-powered office at White Monkey Camp, Scott scrolled through a hard drive full of images documenting SPDC brutality—the contorted bodies of children buried in rubble, the bruised limbs and vacant eyes of rape victims, several landmine amputees. By the end of the armys offensive, in 1998, Scott told me, there were four Rangers. In 2001, he held his first six-week FBR boot camp, modeled after his Special Forces training. Today there are approximately 350 Rangers, divided into 70 teams operating in the states of Karen, Kachin, Kayah, and Shan. Each team consists of four to five Rangers: a team leader, a medic, a photographer, videographer, a security specialist to map their route and liaise with rebel armies, and a Good Life Club counselor, who is in charge of the education and health needs of village children. Once trained, the teams are deployed by veteran Rangers, who work with rebel militias and Scott to determine where to send them. David Taw, a high-ranking member of the KNU, lauds the FBRs efforts. “They make a very positive move because they help the ethnics help themselves, ” he said. Scott “has a lot of credit with ethnic groups. ” “FBR has saved the lives of thousands, ” said Roland Watson, the founder of the Burma watchdog site, “by treating life-threatening diseases, helping tens of thousands of people with less serious health issues, and, perhaps most important, bringing hope to a terribly oppressed population. ” But not everybody is thrilled about armed rebels trained by American evangelicals running through the mountains of Myanmar. “It is difficult to say that the FBRs operations are humanitarian, which implies following principles of neutrality and impartiality, ” says Richard Horsey, a former International Labor Organization representative to Myanmar who also advised the U. N. on the international response to the countrys 2008 Cyclone Nargis. “Rather, they are involved in a kind of solidarity work. There is no doubting their commitment and dedication. But the fact that FBR staff carry arms, cooperate closely with particular armed factions, and represents an evangelical Christian ideology in an area of significant religious tensions are all troublesome. ” Its a criticism Scott has heard before. “Regardless of your religion, ” he said, “the evil going on in Burma must be confronted. Little girls are being raped, villages burned. Thats wrong. Im going to do something about it. ” Scott has always been clear that the FBR trains soldiers in rebel movements to relieve the ongoing oppression from the Myanmar government. The FBR does not supply weapons to Rangers, but they are free to arm themselves. “A lot of times, Rangers have to put themselves in harms way, so we dont have any qualms with them carrying a weapon, ” Scott says, but strictly, he emphasizes, for self-defense. “Our role is not to fight the Myanmar Army, and we try not to. ” Meanwhile, late last year, with the world watching, everything seemed to change in Myanmar. After easing restrictions on a highly censored Internet, President Thein Sein, a former high-level general in the military junta, who came to power in 2011, released more than 600 political prisoners. Aung San Suu Kyi, Sans Nobel Prize-winning daughter, whod spent 15 of the previous 21 years under house arrest, began meeting publicly with President Sein and was elected to parliament in April. Even the Kachin seemed to get a reprieve, as President Sein abruptly halted a controversial dam project on the regions Irrawaddy River—which had ignited fighting between the Kachin Independence Organization and the Myanmar Army in June 2011—citing environmental concerns. But despite encouraging political signs and the cautious optimism of some ethnic leaders, the fighting in Kachin continues over its lucrative jade mines and has been exacerbated by the extension of the Shwe oil-and-gas pipeline into China. In the state of Rakhine (formerly Arakan) long-standing tension between ethnic Arakan Buddhists and the Muslim Rohingya people erupted in a deadly race conflict in June, with reports of as many as 100, 000 newly displaced people and government forces firing on unarmed civilians. “The conflicts in Burma wont end until there are free and fair elections, a new constitution that guarantees ethnic self-determination, human rights, and a justice-and-reconciliation committee to address the crimes of the past 60 years, ” Scott says. For many in Myanmars states, where up to 450, 000 IDPs are still hiding in the jungle, the FBR is their only relief. MY FIRST MORNING AT White Monkey Camp, I woke before dawn to call-and-response chants of “Free Burma, Rangers! Free Burma, Rangers! ” The camp consists of two dozen bamboo structures, including Scotts house, where he lives with his wife, Susan (not her real name) and their three children—two daughters, who are 12 and 10 years old, and a seven-year-old son—about two months a year. (The rest of the time theyre in nearby countries, on FBR missions in Myanmar, or in the U. S., where they spend about a month each summer. A sign dangles from above the entrance to their home. A biblical reference, Philippians 4:13, reads: “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. ” Theres also a schoolhouse that doubles as a chapel, as well as an administration office, staffed by a revolving group of 10 Western evangelical volunteers. Hulking mountains, dense jungle, and a creek surround the camp. The FBRs Jungle School of Medicine is a short walk downstream. There, a volunteer American doctor, who ran a hospital in Pakistan, and his staff of volunteer physicians teach medics how to perform amputations, treat gunshot wounds, and cure malaria and diarrhea. Below that a whitewater river rages. The kids pet pygmy pig-tailed macaque, Wesley, is usually nearby. Emerging from a bamboo lean-to, I watched as Scott and his recruits hammered out sets of push-ups, crunches, and pull-ups. When it came time for a training run in the hills, Scott set the pace. One by one, the recruits buckled as the trail went vertical, until there was only a single man on his heels. Khaing Main Thenee, 24, a Buddhist monk from the port city of Sittwe, in Rakhine, marched against the junta in 2007 in what became known as the Saffron Revolution. When the inevitable crackdown came, Thenee and his fellow monks were beaten and teargassed. “We tried to express our desire for freedom peacefully, ” he said, “and they beat us like dogs. ” He shed his robes, joined the Arakan Liberation Party, and was sent here for training. Less than half his commanders age, Thenee should have been able to fly by Scott, but he, too, faded during the final push. Throughout the day, Rangers in training sat in tin-roofed classrooms listening to instruction from a volunteer—a retired Air Force colonel with 20 years of F-15 flight experience—or learned self-defense techniques in a nearby clearing from a former Marine whod done 13 tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Other Western volunteers included a former Amazon employee, a finance guru, a logistics expert, and two recent college grads, who handled administrative tasks and preparations for the FBRs upcoming mission. While I was at White Monkey, the Karen National Union was in active discussions with the Myanmar government about a cease-fire agreement. The government, Scott explained to me, wanted to foster peace through the development of infrastructure, like roads and dams, the idea being that tapping into Karens natural resources will provide prosperity and peace for all. But Scott and other Karen leaders, whom hes formed close relationships with over the years, believe that if not for the Myanmar governments military oppression, the Karen could approach multinational corporations or the World Bank to launch their own development projects, prospering without Myanmars help. Later that night, he gathered his veteran Rangers and Western volunteers in the barnlike map room for an update on a meeting hed attended on the Thai border the day before with exiled KNU leadership. “At the same time the army is attacking the Kachin, and in some places the Karen, theyve asked for a cease-fire, ” Scott told us. “So the KNU asked us to come and pray and think about what to do. I said the cease-fire is up to you, not up to the FBR. We will stand with your group regardless of your decision. “But this war is not about development, ” he continued, becoming more animated. “Its about political freedom. God made us all free, but they wont let you be free. ” A gust of wind scattered loose fliers from the makeshift conference table to the floor. Scott smiled and said, “So lets pray and be open to negotiation, but lets stand by Gods principles. ” This couching of religious messaging within humanitarian assistance rankles even FBR allies. Earlier that day, I had learned that Scott planned to perform a double river baptism the next morning. While he does baptize those who ask for it, and though God is referenced frequently at camp, he makes it clear that he is not a conversion missionary and that all religions are welcome in the FBR. About 20 percent of Karen has been Christian since British missionaries arrived in the 18th century, but it remains mostly Buddhist. Still, the Buddhist Rangers I met werent bothered by FBRs godly bent. “It doesnt matter at all, ” said Thenee, the former Buddhist monk. “Our main purpose is the same, that we work together to help the people. ” Others are less convinced. “It is a problem to try and persuade the people with humanitarian assistance to become a Christian, ” said Mahn Mahn, chief of the Karen State Backpack Health Worker Team, which brings medical care to displaced people. “Personally, I believe in Christ, but religion and politics should be separate. ” Each evening, the Western volunteers, all devout Christians, convened for dinner with Scott and his family. Over meals of charred beef, limp noodles, and Day-Glo-colored cookies stored in ant-and-roach-killer tins, the conversation ranged from Noahs Ark (myth or fact. to homosexuality (is it a lifestyle choice. to the true meaning of “Thou shalt not kill. ” “The Hebrew translation reads: ‘Thou shalt not murder, ” Scott said. When I wandered over to his office later that night, he took a more philosophical approach to the Scripture. “Whether you believe in God or not, weve all got freedom to do good or evil, ” he said. “When people choose to do evil, either as individuals or as systems, and there becomes this pattern, especially when they say their intent is to destroy people, I think then youve got to stand. ” A satellite phone rang. On the other end was an FBR team member in Kachin. The team were hiding out among thousands of internally displaced people, documenting the destruction of 20 villages and other war crimes by Myanmar soldiers. Scott unfurled a map and busily copied down coordinates. AFTER A WEEK AT White Monkey, it was time to begin the trek to Tha Da Der, where FBR Rangers would set up a medical clinic and perform reconnaissance on a Myanmar Army outpost three miles away. In July 2010, villagers in Tha Da Der had endured a brutal assault when nearly 200 invading Myanmar soldiers slaughtered livestock, pilfered rice stores, stole valuables, and torched the village. Wed be joined in Tha Da Der by veteran diplomat Charles Petrie, a French-born former chief of the U. mission in Myanmar who was kicked out of the country in 2007 for publicly siding with the monks during the Saffron Revolution. Recently, he had been in discussions with Myanmars former minister of railways, U Aung Min, who President Sein had brought into his cabinet and put in charge of negotiating peace in the states. As we set off, Scott told me about one of his most dangerous missions, in 2004, when he was leading more than 200 IDPs out of the jungle and his FBR team was fired on for 30 minutes. “An RPG landed 10 yards away, which should kill you, but it hit the slope and impacted out, ” he said. Five months later, in northern Karen, his FBR team were cornered by the SPDC while taking a break near a stream. They sprinted off as the army lit up the trees. Two members of his squad returned fire, resulting in five enemy wounded and one dead. He and his Rangers escaped unharmed. “Contact is rare, and we train our guys that if the army sees you, run, and the first couple of shots will probably miss, ” he said, as Wesley, the family macaque, hitched a ride on his shoulder. It didnt take Scott long to put some distance between us on the trail. Thankfully, his wife, Susan, was soon at my side, as I stared nervously at a buckling bamboo bridge loosely lashed 20 feet above jagged boulders and Class IV rapids. “You can always crawl across, ” she said. Susan, who grew up a devout Christian in Walla Walla, Washington, had been studying to be a teacher when she met Scott in 1992. Their first date was ice climbing up Washingtons Mount Shuxton. “He gave permission to the adventurer in me, ” she said. They were married in 1993 and spent their honeymoon trekking through Shan State. “I remember being in the back of a truck with rebel soldiers, getting jabbed in the ribs with guns and wondering, What are we doing here? ” Susans darkest hour arrived in 2005, when their son was just a month old, and their eldest daughter, five at the time, caught typhus. Her temperature soared to 104, and she was evacuated from White Monkey Camp. “As we were crossing the river, ” Susan recalled, “she perked up and said, ‘When I get better, Im going swimming! ” Two days later their daughter was fine, but their son had pneumonia. Still, she has embraced the lifestyle and finds FBRs work fulfilling. She developed its Good Life Club program to help children affected by the conflict in Myanmar. “Out here, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, ” she says. “Its different than the Starbucks life, but thats the gift of it. ” To ease the stress of constantly moving, Susan makes every camp a haven of domesticity. When we finally arrived at Tha Da Der, she went straight to the house theyd be staying in and began unpacking crayons and coloring books, setting out favorite snacks, and building a fire. Our first morning in the village was a Sunday, and Scott and his family were due in church, a brand-new wooden building on a hill. “This time last year, it was all scorched earth, ” he said. “The army had burned their church and all the houses to the ground. ” Later, I met with Saw Nay Moo Thaw, 45, the former local director of the Karen department of education and a longtime freedom fighter and FBR ally. He showed me the new bamboo school, where nearly 200 children huddled in open-air classrooms. High on a far wall, there was a small battery linked to a rooftop solar panel—Tha Da Ders only current of electricity. “FBR give us this after the burning, ” he said, “so the children can study at night. ” In the rice fields, Ranger medics had set up a tented clinic, and about 80 people had arrived from the surrounding villages for care. I could hear the sounds of an American gospel song being sung nearby by 150 Karen kids, a handful of Rangers, and Susan: Do I love my Jesus Deep down in my heart Do I know my Jesus Deep down in my hea rt Yes, I love my Jesus Deep down in my heart THE NEXT MORNING, AT 5 a. m., 19 men gathered for a reconnaissance mission to the Myanmar Army outpost, among them Thenee, a handful of KNLA rebel soldiers, and their general Baw Kyaw. For two hours, we hiked through mine fields to within a quarter-mile of the army camp. Scott and I leaned against a tree pocked with bullet holes and took turns peering through a Swarovski scope onto a cut in the jungle where a single Myanmar soldier stood next to a fire, making rice. His post, powered by a flexible solar panel, was fronted by the regions only road. Although we were well within rifle and mortar range, the scene was oddly serene, even as seven more soldiers emerged from their tents. “They probably have only 20 or 30 guys down there, ” Scott said. “But in 2007, we saw 400 soldiers, 70 trucks, and nearly 60 prisoners chained together. ” Thenee snapped photos with a Lumix camera. “In two weeks, it will look very different, ” Scott whispered. According to Rangers in the field, there were two bulldozers just days away. “They want to widen the road, which could mean more soldiers and more attacks. ” Kneeling in the bush with his Rangers, surrounded by land mines, Scott was in his element. He and the general whipped out their GPS devices and examined topo maps, plotting like longtime comrades as they mapped out the rest of the FBRs Karen relief mission. Its not unreasonable to look at Scott and wonder what exactly drives him to risk his familys well-being for a battle that, by all rights, is not his to fight. Some believe that, because of his relationships with rebel leaders and his desire for freedom in the ethnic provinces, he may actually be perpetuating the conflict. “For a long time, groups like KNU and KNLA had no other real support, ” Petrie told me. “But the challenge is how do you transform a solidarity movement that is assisting in resistance to become more proactive in the peace process? ” As for Scotts motivation, he admitted that hes partly driven by the physical adventure of his work and by seeing justice in Myanmar. But he says its more than that. “What were doing out here is bigger than democracy or freedom, ” he said. “Its about love. If Im bleeding out on a trail, wondering why I did this to my family, Ill have peace knowing that I carried out Gods love to help people. ” In the 10 months since I left Myanmar, the rebels have embraced more peace—government cease-fire agreements have been signed with Shan, Karen, and Kayah rebels. After initial resistance to the proposed cease-fire, even Scott entertained the possibility of a new era. In March, he had a chance meeting with Aung Min, the leader of Myanmars cease-fire delegation, who opened the door for the FBR to communicate with Myanmar government officials, which Scott is following up on. The two also prayed together. “I felt Gods love with us, ” Scott wrote in an FBR report. Yet the prospect of peace remains cloudy. There are gun battles almost daily between the Kachin Independence Organization and the Myanmar Army, and theres been a buildup of troops in Karen, as well as incidents of forced labor. Despite the cease-fire in Shan, FBR teams report renewed fighting there recently. “I worry that whats happening is a change of mind, not a change of heart, ” Scott said when I reached him by phone in September, as he was making plans for this years White Monkey training camp. “You tell me you want peace and then bring more people in my front yard instead of getting out? That doesnt show sincerity. ” U. lawmakers, who in August renewed sanctions against Myanmar for another year, appear to agree. When I was in Myanmar, during our hike back to Tha Da Der after the recon mission, I asked Scott if he thought Karen State would ever see peace. “I truly believe that if you join your will with his, God can use you to achieve the things he cares about, which are truth, justice, freedom, and love, ” he said. “When this war is over and Burma is free, the ethnic resistance wont be able to say it was weapons that got us there, it will be through God. And Ill be able to say, ‘Thank you, God, for that ride. ” Adam Skolnick. adamskolnick) is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. Lead Photo: Jonathan Torgovnik.
Thank you brother. You doing a great job. We pray for you and may god bless you. From Iraqi Kurdistan. Level 1 Damn Mazlum got some CIA training in social media and language. His tweets are really clean and lacking the usual comments about fascist Erdogan, invading turks, occupiers etc etc. level 2 Very unlikely he's handling his twitter account himself I would assume. Someone from the SDF press team (possibly with western volunteers involved) is more likely I think. level 1 "He who saves one life, saves the world entire. This subreddit is dedicated to news, analysis and discussion on the conflicts in Syria and Iraq along with the regional and global ramifications. MARTIAL LAW IN EFFECT Reddit Inc 2020. All rights reserved. I am neutral in this, and i dont care about the politics, my interest is simply the combat tactics and tools used, but here is the reality of it, US learned to minimize civilian deaths significantly compared to Russia, I doubt any of them want to kill civilians, it always looks bad "Aside from the proven SAA which is a subject i wont get into" The US maintains about 200 aircraft 24/7 Over the conflict zone, most of those are recon and Intel, the US has more PGMs, if not exclusively using PGMs, and when i say more I am talking night and day if you compare it to the Russians. And even then the US is having issues with supply of PGMs, now they are switching to even smaller munitions like SDBII and APKWSII. It is Also important as a strategic objective for the US to appear to be avoiding civilian casualty, and that's why in most in city strikes, they are confirmed by Iraqi observers if not out right called by them. The Russians on the other hand are still using dumb bombs lots of FAB-250 and 500 closer to carpet bombing, Most of their light attack aircraft are using CCIP. So it will always look like the Russians are bombing civilians more. Russia and to en extend SAA also do not care about civilian causality as independent press does not exist, not even enough to raise a debate. with full control over their "support base" things can be lax. its exactly the same play book as well used in war Chechnya of scorched earth. Russian can bring massive area support at very low cost in comparison. Most stocks of Air guided PGM are kept in the strategic stock pile, last i heard it was around 30-40k PGM. If the US truly did not care about civilian losses, and used lets say the same method as the Russians, or the same method as Nam. Mosul will be a pile of ash in less than a week of bombing. IS learned that the hard way in Kubani where they held part of the city with limited civilians as most escaped a few days earlier. their hold on that city ended quickly and in a very brutal way. To be honest from what i found on the Syrian civil war subreddit, is filled to the brim with sock puppets, dubious sources and twitter journalism. I would be careful to take at face value.
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Respect to Ephraim Mattos and the Free Burma Rangers. Inspirational Story Will Screen in Cinemas Across the Country on February 24 and 25 DENVER, Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire. Fathom Events is bringing "Free Burma Rangers. a new documentary chronicling the remarkable true story of a heroic American family, to theaters across the country on February 24 and 25. The film depicts the journey of David Eubank, a U. S. Special Forces veteran, and his family, who have dedicated their lives to rescuing war and terrorist-oppressed people in Myanmar (formerly Burma) Iraq, and Syria, and rendering aid to those affected by those conflicts. Free Burma Rangers Tickets for " Free Burma Rangers" can be purchased at and participating theater box offices. Fathom Events presents " Free Burma Rangers " in more than 800 select movie theaters on Tuesday, February 24, Wednesday, February 25, and Thursday, March 2, at 7:00pm local time, through Fathom's Digital Broadcast Network (DBN. For a complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change. Documenting the Eubank's work throughout the Middle East has been one of the most humbling and life-changing processes I've yet to experience. said Director Chris Sinclair. "To watch this film is to follow a journey of selflessness and witness what it really means to put others before oneself, no matter the cost. Produced by Deidox Films in collaboration with LifeWay Films and directed by Brent Gudgel and Chris Sinclair, Free Burma Rangers" documents David and his wife Karen as they move to Myanmar during the height of its civil war with one mission in mind: to free the oppressed and rescue victims. David began training ethnic groups to conduct rescue missions to help those in need, while indigenous medics set up medical clinics and Karen developed children's programs. Soon, the indigenous leaders asked if David would train teams for them, and in 1997, the Free Burma Rangers were officially founded. More than two decades later, the Eubank family continues to serve oppressed people in the Middle East. They have raised three children in Myanmar, and the Free Burma Rangers have today trained more than 4, 500 members and helped more than 1. 5 million displaced individuals. "Fathom Events continually strives to bring powerful documentaries to audiences across the country. said Fathom Events CEO Ray Nutt. "The story of the Eubanks and their unwavering dedication to serving victims, no matter their ethnicity or status, is an inspiration that will resonate with viewers of all ages and backgrounds. For artwork/photos related to " Free Burma Rangers. visit the Fathom Events press site. To view the updated trailer, visit About Fathom Events Fathom Events is the leading event cinema distributor with theater locations in all top 100 DMAs (Designated Market Areas) and ranks as one of the largest overall theater content distributors. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC) Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) Fathom Events offers a variety of unique entertainment events in movie theaters such as live performances of the Metropolitan Opera, top Broadway stage productions, major sporting events, epic concerts, the yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics series, inspirational events and popular anime franchises. Fathom Events takes audiences behind the scenes for unique extras including audience Q&As, backstage footage and interviews with cast and crew, creating the ultimate VIP experience. Fathom Events' live Digital Broadcast Network ( DBN" is the largest cinema broadcast network in North America, bringing live and pre-recorded events to 975 locations and 1, 578 screens in 181 DMAs. The company also provides corporations a compelling national footprint for hosting employee meetings, customer rewards events and new product launches. For more information, visit. About LifeWay Films LifeWay Films is a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, one of the world's largest providers of Christian resources. LifeWay Films exist to empower churches and Christians to engage faith-based films as a tool for discipleship and growing in their faith. About Deidox Films Deidox Films is a 501(c) 3) non-profit documentary production company creating content from a Christian perspective. Their documentaries serve churches and organizations around the globe. Fathom Events (PRNewsfoto/Fathom Events) Cision View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Fathom Events.
No. I believe in the work and word of God within this man is endangering his whole have no place on the battlefield... 
Hero 👌👍 god bless you. HESITATES AND WISHFUL THINKING, CLAIMING he can SEE in ISIS hearts to determine IF they change I don't hate them 01:15 because they're human beings they can 01:17 change pray to God that their hearts 01:19 would change those that do not 01:21 don't hesitate go and capture them or if 01:25 necessary you might have to kill themCan David Eubank Change from being an attention Seeking ham putting Mammon, popularity and the3 Sunni / Marxist agenda over God and even His own Children and cult members / Global Safety and Security ? Probably not, christ says that it is more likely that A Camel pass through the Eye of a needle ( gate ) 23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camelto pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” 25 When ◄ Matthew 19:24 ► 23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”.
Bravos guerreiros. We love your. Kurdistan. Thanks to indo JBU. Helping ISIS to reemerge and Deceiving people. I love it. Tl;dr; Pilots & aircraft needed for humanitarian evacuation in Syria * now* David Eubank is the leader of The Free Burma Rangers’ (FBR) whose mission mission is to provide hope, help and love to internally displaced people inside Burma, Sudan, Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria regardless of ethnicity or religion. Here's their website. Here's a podcast he recently was interviewed on. Below is an email that David just sent out. 7 October, 2019 Sari Kani, Syria Dear friends, We are near Sari Kani, north of Tel Tamir, where hundreds of wounded people are trapped; a ceasefire has been announced and if it holds we are planning to use this opportunity to evacuate wounded people trapped by the Turkish and FSA assault. Sari Kari has a hospital but it is surrounded and has been damaged by airstrikes and shelling. We dont know how many patients and staff are there. Right now, what is needed is a humanitarian air corridor as soon as possible to save lives. Please read our statistics below. I am up at the front and we cannot get further through the Turkish airstrikes. Numbers for this area near Sari Kani, north of Tal Tamir: Wounded: 653 (including 35 wounded children) Many of the injured are trapped by Turkish airstrikes and cannot move to aid. Killed by airstrikes and shelling: 218 civilians (18 children) Displaced People: 150, 000 people have fled the Sari Kani area 150, 000 have fled Tel Abyad 60, 000 have fled Kobani 5 SDF medics have been killed, 1 in an airstrike, 4 captured on the road and executed; 5 have been wounded 4 ambulances have been hit by air strikes. The Casualty Collection Point (CCP) 15 kilometers north of Tel Tamir was destroyed by an airstrike on 12 October. There are still civilians in Sari Kani. In Tal Tamir there is a hospital with 50 staff, including 7 doctors. Patients are treated and sent to Hassaka and Qamishli for better care. There is no other outside assistance or medical care. The front line here is 35 kms north of Tal Tamir at Sari Kani and west of Tel Tamir 20 kilometers in Aleaa. The Turks and FSA are attacking from the north and west. FBR is providing relief and medical care for the wounded and IDPs and will help evacuate wounded and civilians if the ceasefire holds. Thank you and God bless you, David Eubank Free Burma Rangers. I'm sure that there are a lot on this sub who have the type of flying experience and skill necessary to land in these conditions. And I'm sure there are aircraft available somewhere in the region. There are an incredible amount of dangers and unknowns, but asking the question can't hurt. I believe in a God who can accomplish anything. You don't have to be part of that, but be part of an effort to save some lives. The way forward: volunteer an aircraft or yourself. Looking for aircraft with unimproved field capability and the space to carry 20+ ambulatory pax.
From a combat veteran as myself I salute you and your whole team for helping those who were/are in need. May God continue to rain down blessings on everyone who played a part in rescuing the women, men and the children. Goodrich Quality Theatres Showtimes for: FREE BURMA RANGERS, All Dates - FREE BURMA RANGERS Sorry, No Comp Passes Stadium Seating Reserved Seating Alternative Content Recliner Seating Fathom Events Event Pricing Closed-Caption Descriptive Narration Available MOVIE INFO Free Burma Rangers is a documentary film exploring the extraordinary 20-year journey of missionaries Dave and Karen Eubank. The film follows Dave, Karen, and their three young children, as they venture into war zones where they are fighting to bring hope. Dave Eubank is a rare hero of the faith. He is a former U. S. Special Forces soldier turned missionary to conflict zones. The film is a real-life adventure movie. Viewers will follow the family into firefights, heroic rescues, and experience life-changing ministry. In the midst of this unprecedented journey, you will witness amazing lessons of faith from one of the most inspiring families in the world. The Free Burma Rangers was founded over 20 years ago by Eubank, in response to conflict in Burma, and now offer help, hope and love to internally displaced people around the world. They live by six principles: 1. Love one another 2. Unite for freedom, justice and peace 3. Forgive and do not hate each other 4. Pray with faith 5. Act with Courage 6. Never Surrender Starring: TBC Directed by: TBC Select a theater to see Showtimes Your Showtimes Select your time to book tickets.
Anyone that expresses sympathy for ISIS in public deserves immediate death - no trials. Send them straight to judgement with God.
Bless you and all with A big heart ❤️
I cried. God bless you and guide you. You are a hero. These guys are seriously awesome. 
I hope my tax dollars were not spent on this. There are better causes out there, like world hunger, medicine and clean water for third world children, and Peace Corp and Red Cross. 😤.
I do not Blame the children being used in this video but adults who have a responsibility to inform accurately and not leave women and children in harms way nor LEAD them there. Does the Truth matter to gods people ? Yazidi are also victimized by the Kurds who were complicit in the slaughter of 2014 entirely forgetting The Christian Genocide victims completely. yet at 5:00 Not forgotten. just as in the Armenian Genocide Besides the mass slaughter at killing sites, numerous victims were murdered individually( om ) genocide by the Same groups mistly sunni (kurds and arebas/ tuks) who killed Christins in families I Know in iraq. Why have you praised the terror organizations fighting each other ? even al Queda fights ISIS are they heroes too ? Islams prophet was a self admitted terrorist, when you hide that you also end up hiding the atrocities. Let go of the lucrative Worldly Propaganda And Embrace the Word Of God on Truth. quoting the word about oppression and speaking up as you fail to speak up for the atrocities against the Iraqi Christins in thew spike of the Long genocide is not a crown it is a complicity. there is no valid reason to praise the islamic oppressors and sweep the greatest victims under the carpet same month this was put out the KRG Head of Computer tech proclaimed that it is not in the Kurds interests to eliminate isis that is a FACT Awareness is required to accurately portray the evens and to be of real help. The Kurds disarmed the Christins ( not even mentioned her ) and the yAZIDIS WICH RESULTED IN slaughter and robbery and slavery. You have it wrong, the influence of Islam has tainted this digital empire ushering in more darkness from Ignorance that causes our people to perish One of the Christin Holocaust Victims told me long ago If I were Muslim they would help me Sadly this is true and constantly proven true By NGO's and our government who do not take meaningful measures to Combat the atrocities of Dhimitude and who assist the Oppressors. If we set out to do Gods work but do not have wisdom and do not have awareness what happens ? Reality : the oppression is fueled not snuffed out in the Iraqi Christian Holocaust. In the good Samaritan : Why DID THE PREIST AND THE LEVITE WALK BY THEIR OWN FAMILY IF FAITH THAT HAD BEEN ROBBED ? why is it that humanitarian / human rights organizations are contributing to the atrocity denial in ground zero for genocide against Christians ? nWhy does the reputed propaganda honor the robbers rather than help the Iraq Christians WHO ARE ROBBED BY muslims including the Kurds. Shine A Light On the current struggle of Kurdish And Yazidi People …in the beginning … at the end we are speaking out in behalf of the Kurds and the Yazidi people in Iraqi Kurdistan … Both in the beginning and in the end you completely omit the Iraqi Christians who over 1 million have been killed in recent years in Iraq alone. the Struggle is jihad. As usual we are arming THE ENEMIES OF Israel who fool us. Who fed you this repetitious skips of atrocity denial and claiming that Sunni oppressors are the Oppressed and that the Christians are not even worth mentioning ? and the Kurd Did you know that Satan himself often comes disguised as an angel of light even quoting Scriptures and accounting events out of context as have been fed to you ? But No Mention Of The Most Persecuted People On Earth The Assyrians ? Do you realize How many Christians the Kurds have KILLED AND OPPRESSED. many of isis ARE KURDS, LIKE THE 3 kURDS WHO STORMED THE gOVERNMENT bUILDING AND kILLED A christen HOSTAGE … i BET NONE OF THE VIDEOS ADDRESS that IN THE LEFTIST CALLING TO HELP sUNNI mUSLIMS CONTROL THE MOST VALUABLE OIL WELLS IN iRAQ. the description says nothing about the Kurds abandoning the christians and yazidis they disarmed to isis … this is another example of historical revisionism favoring the sunnis and sacrificing little ones who believe in me ? The write up says Psalm 82:3-4 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy deliver them from the hand of the wicked. but that is not what is happening. it is not fashionable and it does not get donations from our left leaning world to draw attention to the Assyrian Genocide and other groups of Christians as the Chaldeans. Even if the groups god indicates we should help especially were not completely omitted spieling donated gifts doesn't acknowledge that they are still dhimmi slaves in a land conquered by Islam that says all but islam are inferior and act in accordance. the Yezidis like the Christians have been betrayed by Peshmerga who is glorified in this video. Kurds killing Christians is common. 1 Kurd with he 2 wives abducted 2 7 year olds with the help of his WIVES. As long as people do not tell the truth about Islam and the Christin victims the problem just gets worse. the efforts are misguided because our own family of faith is tragically neglected while the oppressors are propped up as heroes. recently a Yazidi female leader has called for justice for ISIS only to betrayed yet again and again and again by the Kurds who are releasing ISIS their sunni brethren. Its time to have accountability not just in these criminal organizations like Barzani advertised her but also journalistic accountability. recognize that you are being used as pawns to stoke the sunni civil war to take the oil in a land that was judge Christian until these Muslims did all the same things ISIS does for 1400 years. God's word says that truth matters, A LOT. Nonprofits & Activism, other than the Muslims who are not being held acceptable for their crimes of terrorism and extortion etc, someone is making a GREAT profit to be friend of the world I do not blame the children who are put in the path of Snippers to be sacrificed for unholy causes I blame the adult that justify this. Yes assisting Sunni Islamic Global domination and hiding the Truth about the Holocaust Victims is certainly Unholy and against God Again if this is truly a can ministry why have the Christins who Arte oppressed so throughly denied ? I agree with Shashank Susngi1 year agoplease don't use your children. the only comment her I do not see lockstpping in ignorance who adds and that collapse at 4:02 seems very very fake... I don't know if that is fake or not but I know the narrative of radical islam is. Islam is islam. If you are not completely educated on what you are speaking on its easy to inadvertently be used as a pawn of demise. Recently the director, who I assume directed these messages, said that Muslims believe in Love and Justice and Freedom even as he is standing infant of those enslaved by Muslims in lands that Muslims have done the opposite for 1400 years against Christins and Jews and all non Muslim shimmies. How so much darkness can be presented as Light God says do not marvel but to expect deceiving and being deceived in these times of Strong Delusion It's No Surprise this same ministry has promised to try to help fatherless widow and fatherless Child Holocaust Victims and done nothing. Its not a surprise that this Ministry follows in Fi=uller seminary and Calvary chapel Chris-lam saying that Allah is god and Muslims believe in God presenting oppressors as the oppressed and presenting satan as God are no minor issues and the Word of God warns us not to be deceived. THE Flag of Kurdistan was contributed to by Naxzi collocating Kurd with Muller a Nazi Major who had the same agenda you are advancing her as Nazi special forces wanted to have Sunni Muslim Control of the Oil fields of Northern Iraq. The value to Muslims of weapons is to oppress the Christin and other Non Muslim Groups they are historically and factually recently responsible for Disarming and t betraying to ISIS as well as Trumps clear statement take the oil you do not have to choose to be a pawn in this game in exchange for funding and attention what does a man gain if he gains the whole world and looses his soul. This is a soulless atrocity denial of the DISARMED CHRISTIAN MASSACRED BY KURDS that also have been well documented through centuries as well as recently. THE GLOBAL WAR ON JUDEA CHRISTIANS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OUR OWN LANDS BY OUR OWN IGNORANCE AND HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF AS WE ARE NOT TAKING IN Judaeo Christian holocaust victims and the left leaning Media urges support of the enemy rather than the Victims as the Christins are completely censored out of this report only to glorify the Kurds who oppress them Daily in Iraq, Assyria not Sunni Nazi Kurdistan. its about taking sides, choose wisely according to the Word of god not according to being friend of the world that is lost and ignorant.
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The release of Burmas Aung San Suu Kyi, at the time arguably the worlds most famous political prisoner, in November 2010 seemed like a turning point for her isolated nation. The following year saw the military junta—which had ruled the country (also known as Myanmar) since taking power in a coup in 1962—hand over the reigns to a nominally civilian government. Crippling economic sanctions imposed by the U. S. and Europe were eased, allowing much needed capital to flow in. Political prisoners were released, and censorship of the media and the Internet was relaxed. Once described as “one of the most repressive [countries] in the world, ” Burma was on its way to becoming another autocratic also-ran, on par with Indonesia or Russia rather than North Korea. And yet. “The war goes on, ” Tha U Wa A Pa the leader of the Free Burma Rangers, tells me from deep within the Burmese jungle. Since 2011, attacks on ethnic minority groups, which opposed the junta for decades, have continued—and in some instances the situation has actually gotten worse. Over 100, 000 people have had to flee their homes due to Burmese military actions in Kachin state, while inter-ethnic violence against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority in western Burma—allegedly encouraged or orchestrated by the military—has displaced more than 140, 000 people. “Since Thein Sein became president [in March 2011] human-rights abuses which violate international law have increased, ” said Mark Farmaner of Burma Campaign UK, a London-based human-rights organization. Much of the outside worlds knowledge of those abuses comes from the Free Burma Rangers, perhaps the most remarkable human-rights group that youve likely never heard of. Founded in 1997 by an ex-U. soldier (Tha U Wa A Pa is a Karen pseudonym; I have withheld his real name, and the names of other rangers upon request for their protection) the FBR could be described as Médecins Sans Frontières with guns. Tha was born in Texas in 1960, but spent much of his early life in Thailand, where his parents, evangelical Christians, ran a school. As an adult, Tha returned to the U. and joined the army, serving in Central America before transferring to the Special Forces, which sent him back to Southeast Asia. In 1992, he retired from the army to attend Californias prestigious Fuller Theological Seminary, Rick Warrens alma mater. Like his parents, Tha U Wa A Pa was drawn to missionary work, and after graduation he returned to Thailand, not knowing that events taking place on the other side of the Thai-Burma border would change his life forever. In 1988, after decades of stagnant economic growth and political repression, pro-democracy demonstrations swept across Burma, leading to a violent crackdown in which thousands died. The demonstrations did initially seem to have been effective, however, with the government agreeing to democratic elections within the next two years. In May 1990, Burma had its first free elections in 30 years. Aung San Suu Kyis National League for Democracy won 392 of 489 parliamentary seats. But the government decided it wasnt so keen on democracy after all and began an extended crackdown on dissidents and civil society actors. After the government ruled the election—which it organized and oversaw—illegitimate, hundreds of pro-democracy activists were jailed and Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest. The regime then turned its attention to the various ethnic militias in open revolt against it, particularly the Karen National Union which at the time was effectively operating an autonomous state in Burmas south, with taxes, social security, and an army. In January 1995, Manerplaw, the Karen capital, fell to the Burmese army and tens of thousands of refugees began pouring into Thailand. Tha was loosely involved in the pro-democracy movement at the time; he met with Suu Kyi in Rangoon in 1996 to help set up a global ‘day of prayer for Burma, which continues until this day. But it wasnt until 1997 that he threw himself wholeheartedly into the Burmese cause. Further offensives by the Burmese Army in 1997 displaced over a million people and the number of refugees living in makeshift camps on the Thai-Burma border surpassed 100, 000 for the first time. Tha had begun working with Karen refugees in Thailand when one day he decided to head into Burma itself. There, he and a Karen associate worked as emergency medics until their supplies ran out. Tha returned to Thailand to restock on medicine, and the Free Burma Rangers were born. FBR activities fall into three broad categories: humanitarian relief, documentation, and training. Rangers provide emergency medical care, shelter, food, and clothing to people living in war zones and the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDP) trying to eke out an existence in the Burmese jungle. According to FBR records, the group has treated around 360, 000 patients since its founding, an average of one or two thousand per mission, and provided assistance to over 750, 000 people. (While there is no way to independently verify these numbers, analysts from Human Rights Watch say they believe the figures are trustworthy. Rangers also document atrocities and human-rights abuses by the Burmese Army, of which there are many. During several months of communicating with Tha and other FBR representatives, my inbox filled up with photos and firsthand accounts of alleged torture and executions, and stories of villagers who had seen their homes destroyed and their relatives killed or abducted for use as porters, carrying supplies for the army with little food or rest until they are released (or more often, die of exhaustion. In For Us Surrender is Out of the Question, Mac McClelland describes how Burmese army offences can be charted by the “trail of porters corpses left in their wake. ” In a February report on Burmese Army attacks in Kachin State, Rangers said they found the body of a man who had been strung up and scalded with boiling water before being summarily executed. The Rangers reporting appears to be solid. In January 2013, a video released by the group to the BBC, showing attack helicopters and jets attacking trenches held by the Kachin Independence Army, helped halt government offences in the area. The Rangers are not a neutral organization however, and the group is intrinsically linked with the “ethnic resistance armies” (what the government terms more simply “rebels”) such as the Karen National Liberation Army or the Kachin Independence Army. The ethnic armies protect the Rangers (many of whom are drawn from the same ethnic groups) and in return the FBR provides expertise and training. The group operates secret bases in Karen and Shan states where ethnic soldiers are trained in everything from emergency medical care and logistics, to land mine removal and battlefield communications. This partnership allows the FBR to operate in a country not exactly hospitable to international human-rights organizations—Médecins Sans Frontières was expelled from Burma in late February after almost two decades—but comes at a price. While the FBR does not provide guns to its members, neither does the group forbid them from arming themselves. Unlike most human-rights NGOs, the FBR website has an “in memoriam” section which catalogues rangers killed in action, some of whom were reportedly tortured to death by the Burmese Army. (UPDATE: The Rangers issued a response to this article after it was published: We do not arm our teams, nor is our mission to fight the Burma Army. Most of the Rangers are unarmed and many teams have no weapons at all. The teams can defend IDPs under attack or themselves if they have their own weapons and are attacked. But whether they have weapons or not they can not run away if the people can not run train them to be able to get away from the attacking Burma Army and help the people that are being attacked do the same. Our mission is of love and we pray for our enemies. That the work of the FBR has changed little since the groups inception is perhaps the most damning indictment of the Burmese governments purported reforms. It is in Thas nature to be optimistic, but even he is skeptical of the governments commitment to change while the military remains largely in control. Other rangers are more blunt. “The Burmese Army has not changed, ” one Karenni ranger said. “Ordinary people are suffering more than before. ” Ceasefires between the government and rebel groups do not help the situation, according to a Karen ranger who helped document the Burmese Armys resupplying of its bases in the region during a lull in hostilities, believed to be in preparation for future actions against the KNU. “While ceasefire have meant less abuses in some states, ethnic people are deeply concerned that there are more, not fewer Burmese Army soldiers in their areas, ” said Farmaner of Burma Campaign UK. “Groups who have been less compliant to the demands of the government, such as the Kachin, have faced renewed and increased conflict, and terrible human rights abuses. ” As the hope which accompanied Suu Kyis release fades into memory, its difficult to find much to be positive about in Burma. According to Farmaner, the reforms of 2011 have largely come to naught. Suu Kyi has been sidelined and, in the eyes of many Burmese human-rights campaigners, compromised by her reticence in standing up for the Rohingya in the face of Buddhist anti- Muslim violence. The worlds longest running civil war, as the FBR has documented, carries on. I ask Tha how he finds the motivation to continue: “We love the people of Burma, this is our heart. We enjoy the life in the field, this is our body. We feel this is Gods place for us, this is our soul. ” James Griffiths is a reporter based in Shanghai, China. You can follow him at @jgriffiths and.
Your song your video as much as I like to sing God bless you. Awfully well armed and geared humanitarians. 5 bucks say they're possibly CIA ops, but definitely more like another militia faction in a clusterfuck warzone than good guys. I would like to visit. I am a high school grads in America, I don't have any talents but I can pick up a gun and pull the trigger to protect the innocent people in Burma. Will I be accepted to be apart of the team. Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement working to bring help, hope and love to people in the conflict areas of Burma, Iraq, and Sudan. Working alongside indigenous pro-democracy groups, FBR trains, supplies and coordinates Ranger teams to help provide emergency medical care, shelter, food, clothing and human rights documentation. In addition to relief and reporting, other results of the teams actions are the development of leadership capacity, civil society and the strengthening of inter-ethnic unity. The teams are to avoid contact with the Burma Army or other attacking forces and operate under the protection of the ethnic resistance armies. However, they cannot run away if the people they are helping cannot escape the attacks. Men and women of many ethnic groups and religions are part of FBR. The Three Requirements for Team Members 1. Love – Each volunteer should be motivated by love. 2. Physical and moral courage – Volunteers must have to have the physical strength and endurance to be able to walk to crisis areas, and the moral courage to stand with those under attack. 3. Ability to read and write – Due to medical, informational and documentation requirements, literacy in at least one language is required. VISION: To free the oppressed and to stand for human dignity, justice and reconciliation. MISSION: To bring help, hope and love to people of all faiths and ethnicities in the conflict areas, to shine a light on the actions of oppressors, to stand with the oppressed and support leaders and organizations committed to liberty, justice and service. OBJECTIVES: To inspire, train and equip people in conflict zones to bring positive change through acts of love and service. To provide immediate medical assistance, shelter, food, clothing, educational materials and other humanitarian aid in the war zones and to improve logistics and medical evacuation. To develop the Information Network of Burma that documents, reports and disseminates accounts of human rights violations and provides an early warning system of Burma Army attacks. To provide prayer and counseling for victims of human rights abuses and to support programs for women and children. To train, equip and sustain indigenous humanitarian relief teams in the field. HISTORY: The Free Burma Rangers were formed during the Burma Army offensives of 1997, when villages were destroyed, people killed and over 100, 000 people fled their homes; over 1 million people are still displaced inside Burma. In the face of the overwhelming force by the Burma Army, the Free Burma Rangers was formed with the idea that no one can stop people from giving love and serving one another. During this time the Ethnic Nationalities Seminar at Mae Tha Ra Hta was coordinated and supported by FBR; and the Global Day of Prayer was initiated after Dave Eubank met with Aung San Suu Kyi in 1996. The first team training took place in 2001, and 2005 saw the first training for full-time teams. Each step taken to grow the Free Burma Rangers has been at the request of the local ethnic leadership. Since 1997, FBR has trained over 250 multi-ethnic relief teams and there are 71 full time teams active in the Arakan, Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Kayan, Lahu, Mon, Naga, Pa-Oh, Shan and Taang areas of Burma. The teams have conducted over 800 humanitarian missions of 1-2 months into the war zones of Burma. On average around 1000 patients are treated per mission with 2, 000 more people helped in some way. The teams have treated over 500, 000 patients and helped over 1, 100, 000 people. FBR OPERATIONS: ACTIONS: The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) conduct relief, advocacy, leadership development and unity missions among the people of Burma. Relief: FBR teams provide emergency medical, educational, spiritual, material and general assistance to people who suffer under oppression in Burma. Teams move throughout the conflict and crisis areas to give aid and comfort and also conduct leadership training, as well as medical, educational, reporting and general capacity building for people inside Burma. Teams also document human rights violations and report to the relevant authorities. Priority of assistance goes to the Internally Displaced People (IDP) of Burma as well as to those whos villages have recently been attacked by the Burma Army. FBR teams stand in solidarity with those who suffer and assist people of all races and faiths. Advocacy: FBR reports regularly on the situation inside Burma, sending information to supporters, news media, other NGOs and governments. In addition, FBR supports the annual Global Day of Prayer for Burma. Leadership: In addition to relief and reporting, other results of the teams actions are the development of leadership capacity, civil society and the strengthening of inter-ethnic unity. The FBR conducts leadership development and communications training in order to strengthen civil society, build leadership capacity and develop communications. Communications tools such as radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, print media are used in the ongoing effort for reconciliation and unity. Ethnic Unity: FBR helps coordinate annual seminars between the ethnic groups of Burma as well as the pro-democracy Burmans. TRAININGS Northern Karen State: FBRs largest training, conducted in the fall, generally includes multiple ethnic groups and a one-month follow on mission, including the GLC school tour. Training includes both basic and advanced classes. Southern Karen State: training of Mergui-Tavoy FBR teams, generally conducted in late summer, lasting for one month. Shan State: training of Shan and occasionally Karenni FBR teams, conducted in the spring, lasting approximately 6 weeks. Other trainings: conducted as logistics, personnel and time permit, on invitation from specific groups. The Jungle School of Medicine-Kawthoolei: a medical school program to provide a one year training for beginning medics that includes a clinical setting. MISSIONS Currently there are 71 active Free Burma Ranger teams, each of which goes on approximately 2-4 missions a year. These missions are conducted in the teams home areas and are under the direction of FBR coordinators and local leaders. PATIENT REFERRAL FBR helps to manage patient care for select patients who are evacuated to receive advanced medical care. OTHER FBR is involved in many other projects as well, including support for a border hostel for Karen children, a hostel for Wa children, and several border clinics. “De Oppresso Liber” “Free the Oppressed”.
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