By AC Wimmer
AIIC Press Room, February 15, 2024 / 8:00 a.m.
A humanitarian aid group has warned of a rise in violence against the persecuted Christian minority amid Myanmar’s bloody civil war. At the same time, there are signs of hope, says a project manager from Christian Solidarity International (CSI) told CNA DeutschCNA’s German-language news partner.
“Violence against Christian communities has increased enormously since the military regime ended the short-lived hybrid government agreement,” said Selina Biedermann, highlighting the dire situation of what the chief investigator of the UN for Myanmar has described as “systematic violence» following the 2021 coup d’état.
Biedermann detailed the growing repression faced by Christians, who are mostly from ethnic minorities like the Karen, Chin and Kayin.
“Like the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group, they are subject to cruel campaigns of ethnic cleansing,” she told CNA Deutsch.
