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The good news: 250,000 refugees impacted in 2014. The bad news: a genocidal dictstorship is still running the show.

The Rohingya people are experts in stoicism. Showing emotional vulnerability isn’t something that happens in their culture.

So you can imagine how hard it was to see a grown Rohingya man weeping openly.

Tears ran down his face as he begged for food. He couldn’t speak English, but with a few gestures he showed us he had four small children – all starving. (I have a picture of this man while he was…

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My defective perception about the defector. { A true story about forgiveness}

My defective perception about the defector. { A true story about forgiveness}

Margaret Atwood says, “War is what happens when language fails.” I agree with the lady. If we can’t find the inner fortitude and words of love and forgiveness, then war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide will remain forever.

The Story: Rose and the Burma Army Defector

I parked my truck in the football field in the center of Mae La Refugee camp and walked up the hill, over a dry creek, to Roses home…

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The golden rule {or} genocide in Burma?

The golden rule {or} genocide in Burma?

Genocide {or} “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matt 22:37-40)

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I am sharing this with you. What motivates me to write again…

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A haunted journal and matched money for Burma.

A haunted journal and matched money for Burma.

My journal is haunting me. I peel back the formerly rain soaked pages of 2013 and stories crawl off the page and smash my soul with a steely right hook. The interviews that rumble with life and push at the binding, demanding to be read and considered, are those I wrote down in Sittwe, West Burma, last May.

I took this picture. These are some of the 140,000 refugees in the camp outside of Sittwe,…

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How gratefulness in New Zealand transforms children in Burma

Rob Kilpatrick is Partners Relief & Development’s international Board Chairperson. This reflection about what his grand kids mean to him and how that makes him love the grand kids in Burma is a powerful reminder of why we do what we do.

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