Fasting and Prayer Service on International Day of Peace

Christian members from the Karen Community Association in Sheffield are holding a fasting and prayer service today.

This service is held to welcome and support the statement made by the Karen National Union on 15 September 2010, to call for peace in Burma on the World Peace Day 21st September. For many decades, the Karen people have been deliberately targeted for widespread and systematic attacks by the military dictatorship in Burma including the destruction of villages, forced displacement, forced labour and sexual violence. Those crimes against humanity committed by dictatorship in Burma are in breach of the Geneva Conventions.

“By the grace of God we are safe from crimes against humanity in the UK. Even though we are safe, we cannot forget our people who are still suffering everyday from the Burmese military dictatorship. We pray and fast on the World Peace Day for a ceasefire not only one day but forever, for freedom and democracy, for an end to suffering from the attacks against innocent people in our homeland” said Htoo Ku Hsar Say, leader of Karen Community Association- UK. “We welcome other faith groups to join us in this service”.

The Karen Community Association wishes to have genuine democracy, peace and national reconciliation to build a peaceful democratic Federal Union of Burma.