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Updated 9/1/2010 8:21 PM GMT
 
Burma
As Burma’s military junta gears up for its first parliamentary election in two decades this year, observers fear attacks on the Christian minority could intensify. Mungpi Suangtak, assistant editor of a New Delhi-based news agency run by exiled ....
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s northwest who claim to be 90 percent Christian. HRW’s research echoes a 2004 report by the Chin Human ....
Authorities Clamp Down on Christians    Published in 2009
Burmese authorities last week increased restrictions on Christian activity in the capital city of Rangoon and surrounding areas, including the closure of several churches, Compass sources confirmed yesterday. Orders issued on Jan. 5 had already ....
 
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