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Criminal
08-30-2007, 04:44 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/616772.stm

This is the amazing story about two brothers who at age ten became leaders of a guerilla movement to free the Karen people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/615000/images/_616772_leadersb300.jpg

At the time, the twins Johnny and Luther Htoo are reported to have armed themselves with hand grenades and guns and sneaked into a village controlled by the Burmese army and opened fire, killing several soldiers.

The boys claimed to have done it to show the KNU how to fight the Burmese and their reputation grew from there.

'Mystical powers'


God's Army is now some 200 strong and its supporters believe the two boys have mystical powers.

There is a history of support for cults like this along the border.

God's Army followers believe their leaders have special powers

God's Army has accused the Burmese army of raping and killing villagers along the Thai-Burma border.

Last December the group issued a statement justifying its decision to give shelter to five gunmen from another Burmese dissident group, the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors.

The gunmen had taken part in the storming of the Burmese embassy in Bangkok last October.

The embassy siege ended peacefully and the gunmen were flown to the area controlled by the God's Army.

oki
08-30-2007, 05:44 AM
demonstations against the gouvernment in burma are going now for a week or so.

last time that happened, they killed about 3000 protesters and threw the rest in jail, where they probably still are.

fat mike
08-30-2007, 09:13 AM
indochina is still a mess

oki
08-30-2007, 09:15 AM
hthe burmese regieme has to go down eventually, lets hope its fast now. those basterds.

KillZone
08-30-2007, 12:38 PM
This is the amazing story about two brothers who at age ten became leaders of a guerilla movement to free the Karen people.

It is beyond "amazing" to me. When I was their age I could not have done what these twins have done.

Criminal
08-30-2007, 02:26 PM
demonstations against the gouvernment in burma are going now for a week or so.

last time that happened, they killed about 3000 protesters and threw the rest in jail, where they probably still are.
Yea its possibly the worst police state in asia. I believe that the government of Thailand is also complicit in what is going on there. Thailand also supported the Khemer Rouge in Cambodia. I just wish Thailand also had a revolution.

I heard about this story on BBC World radio news. I found the story about these two children amazing.

oki
08-30-2007, 07:17 PM
yea it is, I red it before somewhere.
theres a lot of drug trafficing with tailand.

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