Dear seniors, following message has been sent by pastor David Lian from Myanmar. After the military coup, they are under great distress and threat to life. Please pray for them.

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"Some of you may think we, people from Myanmar, are very sensitive and emotional due to Military Coup in Myanmar.

But what you may know or hear is just the tip of the iceberg.

The followings are some of the shocking facts happening in Myanmar.

1. If someone is arrested alive at night, most likely his or her dead body will be returned the next morning. In some cases, they won’t even return the body of deceased.

2. If you are a medical staff helping injured protesters, then you can be arrested and tortured or get killed. Even if you are working in your own clinic treating the wounded patients, you can still be abducted or tortured.

3. Doesn’t matter if you stay home or go out to protest, you can get killed anytime without any valid reason due to random gunfire.

4. Doesn’t matter if you are a pregnant lady or a 6-year-old child, they will shoot and kill you at their whim without mercy.

5. Even if you are not protesting, you can be detained, beaten, tortured, humiliated, dehumanised anytime and anywhere (day or night), even inside your own home.

6. You can be abducted, assaulted or killed just for going to work or delivering food (foodpanda, grab food delivery).

7. Now, the only internet service available in the country is the fiber internet line. mobile data has been shutdown for almost 20 days. WiFi broadband services have been cut off since yesterday. All the public WiFi services have been cut off. The only remaining internet service, from the fiber line, is not available everyday from 1am to 9am for almost 2 months. Many apps and websites, such as Facebook , Twitter , Instagram, Google etc., are blocked to suppress the spread of information and news.

Myanmar is not in a war. A war in today’s world would indicate that opposing parties have some weapons to fight and ability to defend themselves. However, in Myanmar, people have no guns nor protective gears to fight a war. Only the brutal junta regime has the arms and trained killers to terrorise the very citizens it has sworn to protect.

People have something that is stronger and more powerful than guns and bullets, they have hope and unwavering belief that righteousness will overcome evil and that karma and justice will prevail in the end."