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Over the past decade, I have written about 400 reviews and have never reviewed a “Christian film”, until now. Im defining “Christian film” as those films aimed at the evangelistic community, usually shown as “special events”, “one night only” in theaters, or shown at churches. Free Burma Rangers definitely fits here, but it transcends the limitations of the genre and deserves to be seen by a wider audience. The film documents the efforts of former Special Forces soldier David Eubank and his family to help people in war zones, initially in Burma, but now in many places around the globe. A Local Connection I became aware of the film due to a controversy over whether Eubank was eligible to be a member of a veterans group where I live. The debate piqued my curiosity about the film, and Im glad it did. Free Burma Rangers is amazing in its humanity and graphic honesty. The film illuminates areas of the human experience in which I considered myself something of an expert. I came away realizing there were tremendous gaps in my knowledge. The first part of the film deals with twenty years of the history of the civil war in Burma and how Eubank became involved. The second shows the Free Burma Rangers helping in the war-torn Iraqi city of Mosul. Burma Civil War? Not heard of it? Neither had I, and Im a news junkie and, thanks to the Army, have spent time in Japan, Korea, and, right next door to Burma, in Thailand. Eubank, after completing ten years in the U. S. Army, received a call from his father, a missionary in Burma, telling him that people there could use his help. He decided to go, and thought if he could help a few people, he would be done and have fulfilled a good purpose. Shortly after starting the Rangers, Eubank arranged to video their efforts He was so shocked by what was happening there, twenty years later he is still helping and the small medical team he created has evolved into a humanitarian movement which trains, supplies and coordinates multipurpose relief teams. In recent years, the Free Burma Rangers have expanded operations to Iraq, Syria and Sudan. From the very beginning of his involvement, Eubank thought it was important to get the word out about what was going on. He sent messages to the Associated Press but realized that they couldnt convey the seriousness of what he was seeing. He trained one of the volunteers from Burma to record video. That video makes up critical parts of the film and allows us to see the early years of the organizations work, and Eubanks family. The story of his wife, son, and two daughters, living and growing up in war zones is reason enough to see this film. Over the years, Eubank organized and trained over 70 relief teams to help people in Burma. Then, he got a call from a larger international relief organization. Iraq and Mosul The relief organization told Eubank that they had food and supplies they wanted to get to people in Iraq. Their charter, however, prevented them from sending people into war zones. They wanted to know if the Free Burma Rangers could get this help into the people in Mosul, Iraq. Eubank, his wife and children, all help with the relief efforts The film documents the help that Eubanks team provided in Iraq. The combat photography, much of it focused on rescues of Iraqis under attack by ISIS forces, is some of the most graphic and heart rendering footage I have ever seen. Nothing is reenacted. Nothing is blurred out or pixelated. You see the toll war can take on civilians. You see the decisions that must be made, and situations soldiers find themselves in. “There is a little girl clinging to her dead mother against that wall. Do I run across this open space under enemy fire to save her? ” This dilemma is recorded, and the question answered in the film. The Film and More The film took five years to produce and as of this writing is still in post-production. It is scheduled to be completed and shown in theaters on February 24 and 25, 2020. You can order tickets and find screenings online. To find out more about the Free Burma Rangers and their work, check their accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can watch the trailer for the film below.
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0 Up votes 0 Down votes 81 views 7 pages Description: On the 22rd of March, at 4:30 PM, Burma Army troops from LIB 369 entered Kaw Hta village, Ler Doh Township and shot and killed 1 woman and 2 children. Troops shot and killed Naw La Pwey, a 37 year old woman, Naw Paw Bo, a 5 year old girl, and Saw Hta Pla Htoo, a 5 month old boy. They also shot and wounded Naw Pah Lah. Description: On the 22rd of March, at 4:30 PM, Burma Army troops from LIB 369 entered Kaw Hta village, Ler Doh Township and shot and killed 1 woman and 2 children. Troops shot and killed Naw La Pwey, a 3… Full description You're Reading a Free Preview Pages 4 to 6 are not shown in this preview. Free burma rangers in thailand jobs.
Free burma rangers jobs. (explosion. Well, you have one life and might as well go for it 'cause what are you gonna hold onto? epic music) I grew up as a missionary kid in Thailand. I remember thinking, I think I'm more of a soldier. I felt God had something else for me to do. (epic music) I turned to Karen and I said, I'm going to Burma, will you come with me? Will you marry me. I felt in my heart, Say no and let it go, or you say yes and you get in. gunfire) explosion) helicopters. I have no other plan, just go. Go to the sound of the guns, go to the sound of need and trust God to show you how you can be useful. (army chanting. Man] David Eubank, a former Special Forces Captain has gone on to found the relief group called the Free Burma Rangers. Woman] Helping those fleeing front lines of war. Woman] His wife and three children go with him into the conflict areas. (epic music. As we do these relief missions, more and more ethnic people began to join us. I want to go and help my people as I can. Group] Never surrender! Rangers! explosions. We hope these things will change the world. (epic music. We're here on the border of Iran and these are all refugees that have been fleeing ISIS. Man] Sniper! Sniper! gunfire. This is the craziest thing in the world to do and yet we knew we had to respond. I felt God's voice, Get on your knees and pray. Get on my knees. I look like a Christian nutcase, man. (epic music) ISIS just opened up on three sides. (gunfire) Bullets are pinging of the Humvee like crazy. (epic music. Karen] Everything is just right there on the edge. How far is that gonna take Dave. Alive! epic music) gunfire) What's happening to you is wrong, we're gonna help you even if we die trying. We're not gonna leave. 'Cause you count. Jesus, help me. (intense music.
Why isn't this all over the news, I only know of this because of Infowars. Free burma rangers 2018. Free burma rangers 2019. Free burma rangers rescue girl. Those who are helping are hero's. YouTube Free Burma Rangers. God help. Free burma rangers combat. Free Burma rangers. Free burma rangers shirts. Free burma rangers movie release date. The release of Burmas Aung San Suu Kyi, at the time arguably the worlds most famous political prisoner, in November 2010 seemed like a turning point for her isolated nation. The following year saw the military junta—which had ruled the country (also known as Myanmar) since taking power in a coup in 1962—hand over the reigns to a nominally civilian government. Crippling economic sanctions imposed by the U. S. and Europe were eased, allowing much needed capital to flow in. Political prisoners were released, and censorship of the media and the Internet was relaxed. Once described as “one of the most repressive [countries] in the world, ” Burma was on its way to becoming another autocratic also-ran, on par with Indonesia or Russia rather than North Korea. And yet. “The war goes on, ” Tha U Wa A Pa the leader of the Free Burma Rangers, tells me from deep within the Burmese jungle. Since 2011, attacks on ethnic minority groups, which opposed the junta for decades, have continued—and in some instances the situation has actually gotten worse. Over 100, 000 people have had to flee their homes due to Burmese military actions in Kachin state, while inter-ethnic violence against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority in western Burma—allegedly encouraged or orchestrated by the military—has displaced more than 140, 000 people. “Since Thein Sein became president [in March 2011] human-rights abuses which violate international law have increased, ” said Mark Farmaner of Burma Campaign UK, a London-based human-rights organization. Much of the outside worlds knowledge of those abuses comes from the Free Burma Rangers, perhaps the most remarkable human-rights group that youve likely never heard of. Founded in 1997 by an ex-U. soldier (Tha U Wa A Pa is a Karen pseudonym; I have withheld his real name, and the names of other rangers upon request for their protection) the FBR could be described as Médecins Sans Frontières with guns. Tha was born in Texas in 1960, but spent much of his early life in Thailand, where his parents, evangelical Christians, ran a school. As an adult, Tha returned to the U. and joined the army, serving in Central America before transferring to the Special Forces, which sent him back to Southeast Asia. In 1992, he retired from the army to attend Californias prestigious Fuller Theological Seminary, Rick Warrens alma mater. Like his parents, Tha U Wa A Pa was drawn to missionary work, and after graduation he returned to Thailand, not knowing that events taking place on the other side of the Thai-Burma border would change his life forever. In 1988, after decades of stagnant economic growth and political repression, pro-democracy demonstrations swept across Burma, leading to a violent crackdown in which thousands died. The demonstrations did initially seem to have been effective, however, with the government agreeing to democratic elections within the next two years. In May 1990, Burma had its first free elections in 30 years. Aung San Suu Kyis National League for Democracy won 392 of 489 parliamentary seats. But the government decided it wasnt so keen on democracy after all and began an extended crackdown on dissidents and civil society actors. After the government ruled the election—which it organized and oversaw—illegitimate, hundreds of pro-democracy activists were jailed and Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest. The regime then turned its attention to the various ethnic militias in open revolt against it, particularly the Karen National Union which at the time was effectively operating an autonomous state in Burmas south, with taxes, social security, and an army. In January 1995, Manerplaw, the Karen capital, fell to the Burmese army and tens of thousands of refugees began pouring into Thailand. Tha was loosely involved in the pro-democracy movement at the time; he met with Suu Kyi in Rangoon in 1996 to help set up a global ‘day of prayer for Burma, which continues until this day. But it wasnt until 1997 that he threw himself wholeheartedly into the Burmese cause. Further offensives by the Burmese Army in 1997 displaced over a million people and the number of refugees living in makeshift camps on the Thai-Burma border surpassed 100, 000 for the first time. Tha had begun working with Karen refugees in Thailand when one day he decided to head into Burma itself. There, he and a Karen associate worked as emergency medics until their supplies ran out. Tha returned to Thailand to restock on medicine, and the Free Burma Rangers were born. FBR activities fall into three broad categories: humanitarian relief, documentation, and training. Rangers provide emergency medical care, shelter, food, and clothing to people living in war zones and the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDP) trying to eke out an existence in the Burmese jungle. According to FBR records, the group has treated around 360, 000 patients since its founding, an average of one or two thousand per mission, and provided assistance to over 750, 000 people. (While there is no way to independently verify these numbers, analysts from Human Rights Watch say they believe the figures are trustworthy. Rangers also document atrocities and human-rights abuses by the Burmese Army, of which there are many. During several months of communicating with Tha and other FBR representatives, my inbox filled up with photos and firsthand accounts of alleged torture and executions, and stories of villagers who had seen their homes destroyed and their relatives killed or abducted for use as porters, carrying supplies for the army with little food or rest until they are released (or more often, die of exhaustion. In For Us Surrender is Out of the Question, Mac McClelland describes how Burmese army offences can be charted by the “trail of porters corpses left in their wake. ” In a February report on Burmese Army attacks in Kachin State, Rangers said they found the body of a man who had been strung up and scalded with boiling water before being summarily executed. The Rangers reporting appears to be solid. In January 2013, a video released by the group to the BBC, showing attack helicopters and jets attacking trenches held by the Kachin Independence Army, helped halt government offences in the area. The Rangers are not a neutral organization however, and the group is intrinsically linked with the “ethnic resistance armies” (what the government terms more simply “rebels”) such as the Karen National Liberation Army or the Kachin Independence Army. The ethnic armies protect the Rangers (many of whom are drawn from the same ethnic groups) and in return the FBR provides expertise and training. The group operates secret bases in Karen and Shan states where ethnic soldiers are trained in everything from emergency medical care and logistics, to land mine removal and battlefield communications. This partnership allows the FBR to operate in a country not exactly hospitable to international human-rights organizations—Médecins Sans Frontières was expelled from Burma in late February after almost two decades—but comes at a price. While the FBR does not provide guns to its members, neither does the group forbid them from arming themselves. Unlike most human-rights NGOs, the FBR website has an “in memoriam” section which catalogues rangers killed in action, some of whom were reportedly tortured to death by the Burmese Army. (UPDATE: The Rangers issued a response to this article after it was published: We do not arm our teams, nor is our mission to fight the Burma Army. Most of the Rangers are unarmed and many teams have no weapons at all. The teams can defend IDPs under attack or themselves if they have their own weapons and are attacked. But whether they have weapons or not they can not run away if the people can not run train them to be able to get away from the attacking Burma Army and help the people that are being attacked do the same. Our mission is of love and we pray for our enemies. That the work of the FBR has changed little since the groups inception is perhaps the most damning indictment of the Burmese governments purported reforms. It is in Thas nature to be optimistic, but even he is skeptical of the governments commitment to change while the military remains largely in control. Other rangers are more blunt. “The Burmese Army has not changed, ” one Karenni ranger said. “Ordinary people are suffering more than before. ” Ceasefires between the government and rebel groups do not help the situation, according to a Karen ranger who helped document the Burmese Armys resupplying of its bases in the region during a lull in hostilities, believed to be in preparation for future actions against the KNU. “While ceasefire have meant less abuses in some states, ethnic people are deeply concerned that there are more, not fewer Burmese Army soldiers in their areas, ” said Farmaner of Burma Campaign UK. “Groups who have been less compliant to the demands of the government, such as the Kachin, have faced renewed and increased conflict, and terrible human rights abuses. ” As the hope which accompanied Suu Kyis release fades into memory, its difficult to find much to be positive about in Burma. According to Farmaner, the reforms of 2011 have largely come to naught. Suu Kyi has been sidelined and, in the eyes of many Burmese human-rights campaigners, compromised by her reticence in standing up for the Rohingya in the face of Buddhist anti- Muslim violence. The worlds longest running civil war, as the FBR has documented, carries on. I ask Tha how he finds the motivation to continue: “We love the people of Burma, this is our heart. We enjoy the life in the field, this is our body. We feel this is Gods place for us, this is our soul. ” James Griffiths is a reporter based in Shanghai, China. You can follow him at @jgriffiths and.
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Free burma rangers kachin brigades map. God bless yall. Zau Seng (far right) a Kachin cameraman and medic from Myanmar for Free Burma Rangers was killed in a mortar strike that hit his position in Syria. Photo: Free Burma Rangers The Free Burma Rangers is a humanitarian organisation whose goal is to free the oppressed in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan The group said Zau Seng was killed Sunday in a mortar strike by the Turkish army or their Syrian allies Topic, Syrian conflict Zau Seng (far right) a Kachin cameraman and medic from Myanmar for Free Burma Rangers was killed in a mortar strike that hit his position in Syria. Photo: Free Burma Rangers.
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AMEN! Well done 👍. Free burma rangers movie trailer. KAREN STATE, Burma — When an American soldier retires from action, he or she usually opts for a quiet life — a nice house, maybe by the sea, a chance to settle down. Not so the "Father of the White Monkey. as he is called by the Karen, an ethnic group of 7. 5 million people largely based on a hilly sliver of land bordering Thailand. This former special operations officer, who asked to remain nameless due to the senstivity of his work, is now in his 40s. But, far from taking it easy, he lives and works deep inside Karen state, where there has been an ongoing civil war since 1949, making it one of the world's longest ever. The Father of the White Monkey, or Tha U Wa A Pa as he is called in Karen, has taken it upon himself to help the Karen in their struggle for statehood. He, along with a team of about 50 trek up and down mine-ridden Karen mountains day in and day out, distributing aid and training a force that has become known as the Free Burma Rangers. When he left the U. S. Army, Tha U Wa A Pa, went to visit his father, a famous Christian missionary based in Thailand, where he became interested in Burmas struggle for democracy. At the time, Burmese democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi had just been released from house arrest, though she was later put back under house arrest and only freed again in November 2010. “Daw Suu Kyi had just been let out and my sister suggested I go and see her for guidance as to how I can help, ” he told Global Post sitting around a makeshift table at his organizations temporary headquarters nestled among bamboo groves, deep in the Karen jungle. “I was blown away by her humility, her strength, and her love for her people — she asked me to help her people, unite the ethnics and pray — thats what I have set out to do. ” Following the secret meeting with Suu Kyi, he traveled to the Thai-Burma border where the regimes army had launched a widespread offensive against the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) which is the largest ethnic rebel force fighting for independence from the rest of Burma. Karen highlanders have maintained ties to Western Christians — notably American Baptists — since missionaries arrived in the region in the 19th century. Christian foreigners established a network of schools and churches, which eventually helped coalesce various Karen tribes into a united struggle for Karen statehood. On arrival Tha U Wa A Pa stocked his car up with medical supplies and drove down to the spot where he remembers tens of thousands of refugees fleeing from the intense fighting. There, he met Eliya Sampson. As Karen refugees literally rushed past over into Thailand, Tha U Wa A Pa says he remembers a soldier jumping out of the bush with a grenade launcher and red earring. “I was like man, you look like a pirate, and he told me his name was Eliyai and that he was a medic and asked if he could help me, ” said Tha U Wa A Pa. Together they went along the border distributing aid, in what was to be the beginning of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR. “I had no weapon, little money and no power but I thought if I could help one person then they would be happy, and I would be happy. ” Despite his modest ambitions, Tha-U-Wa-A-Pa and Eliya went on to help thousands of villagers as they trekked for months across the war-torn Karen mountains. "We would travel with four or five people, fill our backpacks up with medicine. We were like ants, ” he said. “When the medicine had run out, we would come back to the border, stock up, and just go again, and again, sending out reports whenever we could. ” From one initial team of “rangers, ” FBR has expanded over the last 13 years to 53 and the number continues to grow. Tha-U-Wa-A-Pa is more than eager to point out that over 250 local staff members, who risk their lives on a daily basis to help their people in the war-torn ethnic areas, do the main work. Tha Da Der village is the first destination after a two-month, multi-ethnic training deep inside Karen State for 10 new teams and seven existing teams. The medics come from every ethnic group in Burma, and are handpicked by their leaders. “I used to be a soldier but wanted to be able to help my people more directly, Free Burma Rangers gives you the training to do that, ” said Saw Tu a Karen medic, as he pulls out a patients tooth at the temporary clinic set up on paddy fields next to Tha Da Der. Last June the regimes troops advanced on the Tha Da Der village and burned down the church, school and over 35 homes. They also burned their livestock, part of a brutal four-cuts policy, which aims to disconnect the rebels' support base. Luckily, the villagers were warned before and Karen soldiers were able to recapture the village. “I can still remember the smell of our cattle drifting through the valley and returning to my house smoldering, ” said Saw Plo, an elderly man, standing within a burned out wooden frame, which used to be his home. “It was very difficult for us to rebuild our lives, but with the help of the rangers we could do it. ” Next to the clinic, the rangers have organized “the good life club” for children. Designed by Tha U Wa A Pas wife – who is also American and lives in the jungle with him and their three young children – the program is designed to educate and support the children in the conflict area. As well as the community program and providing aid, the rangers are also dedicated to documenting all human rights abuses they witness. Along with volunteer security units, every team has a documentation officer who records all the events, often taking great risks to film the widespread abuse committed against civilians. FBR has a strong Christian foundation. Tha U Wa A Pa belives himself to be an ambassador for Jesus, but the FBR also help and welcome people from all religions, he said. The Free Burma Rangers have been a great help, according to Gen. Baw Kyaw from the Karen National Liberation Army. “FBR has brought technology to the Karen people and enabled us to tell the world what is going on, ” the stocky general told GlobalPost from his secret jungle hideout where he controls most of the armys northern command. “If they hadnt come, we would have faced many more human rights abuses, ” he said. Tha-U-Wa-A-Pa remains humble about FBR's operations. “Were just tiny, ” he said. “Were really more of a disorganization. Were just an organization out of necessity but I hope we are lighting small fires of hope and love across Burma. ” Despite his humility, FBR supplied medicine to over 100, 000 patients last year. Moreover, the rangers are laying the foundations for inter-ethnic cooperation, which many hope will benefit Burmas ethnic areas for years to come. As the medics packed up their equipment and set out to their native war zones this past January, the camp buzzed with excitement. “We are a small group going up against a mighty evil force, but we have the love and dedication to struggle on, ” said Sunshine, a young Karenni "ranger. before disappearing into the jungle.
Free burma rangers armed. That was a undeniable miracle! God bless you all. On a sticky 90-degree day last November, the sun blazed high over a village in northern Karen, a province of 7. 5 million people in southeastern Myanmar. At the edge of a riverside clearing, farmers dressed in rags, sweaty and soiled, trickled home from the fields to their thatched-bamboo huts for lunch. They chatted and laughed freely—until a mortar exploded 50 feet away. Rangers entertaining village children. Preparing for a recon mission. Karen villagers lining up for an FBR medical clinic. Karen freedom fighter Saw Nay Moo Thaw. A school in the village of Tha Da Der. Within seconds men in Myanmar Army uniforms strafed the village with semi-automatic gunfire. Shouting soldiers dragged women to the ground and held pistols to the mens heads. The platoon leader wandered from hut to hut, using a torch to ignite grass roofs. Then something strange happened. A young blond girl—dressed in black and wearing flip-flops, her face streaked with grease—suddenly leaped to the top of a boulder, holding a bow and arrow. Narrowing her eyes, she pulled back and fired. “Way to go! ” A lean, fit American guy, dressed in running shorts and an Army green T-shirt, emerged from the sidelines, clapping and cheering like a proud parent at a soccer game. “Did you see that? She jumped up like Robin Hood and just nailed the guy! ” This was the 52-year-old founder of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) a humanitarian relief outfit operating in Karen and other Myanmar states. Ill call him Scott, which is not his real name. (Because the FBRs work involves crossing into Myanmar illegally and could be shut down at any time—and because of the security risks I observed FBR teams take behind enemy lines—I agreed not to reveal the identity of the groups founder or members of his family. The blond girl is Scotts 12-year-old daughter, and what Id been witnessing was the kind of attack that has occurred many hundreds of times in the countrys ethnic regions—in the border states of Karen, Kayah, and Shan, among others, whose rebel militias have resisted Myanmars military since the country gained independence in 1948. Even as Myanmars government has made headlines for its recent reforms, the fighting has continued in some areas, and a full-fledged war has erupted in Kachin, where 90, 000 people have been displaced since June 2011. This time, however, the arrows were blunted and the bullets blanks. The mock village burning was the elaborate launch of the final two-day exercise at FBRs six-week training session, at a place called White Monkey Camp. A former U. S Army Ranger and ordained minister, Scott founded the Free Burma Rangers in 1997. Run by a staff of Western evangelical volunteers and funded mainly by Christian churches, FBR trains teams of ethnic rebels to go toward the front lines, help evacuate internally displaced people (IDPs) treat the sick and wounded, perform reconnaissance of enemy troops, inform villagers and allies of their whereabouts, and document the Myanmar Armys carnage with video, photography, and written reports, which they transmit to news organizations, NGOs, local governments, and church groups around the world. The FBRs work is dangerous. Rangers are often armed with whatever weapons they can find—shotguns, 22s, AK-47s—and have been the target of enemy fire on a number of occasions. Since 1997, 13 Rangers have died in the field—one caught and tortured to death by the Myanmar Army, others killed by land mines, malaria, and a lightning strike. Scott runs five training camps each year, with the largest, held each November, at White Monkey Camp. This time there were 76 trainees in attendance, ranging in age from 18 to 36, representing seven of the countrys 135 ethnic groups. Most of them were rebels sent by the Karen National Union (KNU) one of the largest movements fighting for autonomy from the Myanmar government. Over the previous few weeks, the trainees had attended seminars in strategic reconnaissance and wilderness rescue and received specialized instruction from volunteer medics, engineers, photographers, and videographers. Beginning at 4:30 a. m. each day, theyd also undergone grueling physical conditioning, including climbing canyon walls and hours of sit-ups, push-ups, and trail runs. During the final mock-fighting exercise, they wouldnt sleep or eat much. “Foods a crutch, Ranger, ” Scott said. He calls everyone Ranger. His Ranger name: Tha U Wah A Pa. It means Father of White Monkey. White Monkey? Thats his 12-year-old daughter, who earned the nickname crawling around this jungle as an infant. As the smoke cleared, veteran Rangers split up to oversee one of 19 test stations for, among other things, orienteering, security, and rappelling. I headed over to the land-mine station, run by a shy, slender woman named Hsa Geh, who is 29. When she was 16, Myanmar soldiers murdered her parents and little brother in their Karen village during an invasion similar to the drill Id seen today. One sister was raped and killed, the other shackled and imprisoned at a Myanmar Army base, never to be seen again. Geh escaped and lived on the run for two years before the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) took her in. She joined the FBR six years ago. “Talk about tough, man, ” Scott said as we watched Geh put her team through the paces. “A lot of our Rangers have stories like hers. ” Moments later, at the rappelling station, Scott—calves and biceps bulging, abs as ripped as a young Marines after basic training—was unhappy with the tie-off. After adjusting the line, he dropped over the edge of a river bluff, sans harness, and eased down, hand over hand, then smoothly climbed up before he allowed the first recruit to clip in. Id arrived at the camp a few days before. Id spend the next week here, then trek with Scott and his recruits deeper inside Karen to the village of Tha Da Der, the first stop on a three-month FBR relief mission. It would be a rare look at the front lines of one of the more unusual relief efforts in the world—a humanitarian movement with both Bibles and guns. I MET SCOTT IN Shan State in 2007, when I spent four days with him as he trained Shan State Army-South rebels for a relief mission there. My first impression: he is one Jesus-loving badass. On that trip, he told me about his U. S. Army career, his relief work in Southeast Asia, the triathlon hed won, and the mountains hed climbed. At times he would begin to pray spontaneously. The only son of a Texas oil speculator turned preacher and a Broadway star (his parents met before his mothers USO show during the Korean War) he was born in Texas but prior to his first birthday moved to Thailand, where his parents worked to build schools and cultivate Christians. “Back then, Thailand was a lot like here, ” Scott said, gesturing toward the surrounding mountains and jungles. “I learned to ride, swim, and shoot when I was five. I already knew that I wanted to be soldier. ” By the eighth grade he was an Eagle Scout. Ten years later, in the '80s, he was leading an elite airborne strike force in Central America. A few years after that, following a stint as a U. Army Ranger, he joined Special Forces and relocated to Thailand. During his time in the Army, he began participating in triathlons—winning the Panama Studman—and climbing. He has summited Nepals 21, 247-foot Mount Mera, Alaskas Denali, the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, and Mount Rainier (twice in one day. When he retired from the Army in the early '90s, he earned a postgraduate ministerial degree from Californias prestigious Fuller Theological Seminary, then moved back to Thailand to work in Karen and Shan refugee camps on the Thai border. In the mid-1990s, the Myanmar Army initiated a campaign to weaken rebel forces in the ethnic regions. Its a conflict that goes back centuries, between the central Burmans—who account for almost 70 percent of Myanmars population and are largely Buddhist—and the 135 ethnic minorities in the states, who are also predominantly Buddhist but have their own languages, traditions, and rites. Tensions escalated in 1947, after revolutionary hero Aung San, whod crafted a constitution for a federal democratic Burma, was assassinated. Following years of upheaval, a military coup in 1962 put dictator Ne Win in power, backed by a junta of ruling army generals. Win turned Burma into a police state, censoring the media, imprisoning political rivals, and declaring war on rebel ethnic armies—a war that has continued, with varying degrees of violence, ever since, and which many believe is as much about the states resources and key border locations as it is about quashing ethnic rebellion. The repressive regime, which changed the countrys name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, has been most violent in the states of Karen and Shan. Since 1996, according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium, an alliance of NGOs that provides aid to refugees and displaced people, 3, 724 villages have been torched, with more than a million people displaced and a large but unknown number dead. Scott entered this tragedy in 1997, during one of the most ruthless outbreaks of violence, when the Myanmar junta—which was renamed the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) that year—launched a major offensive in Karen, Kayah, and Shan, slaughtering thousands. He heard the sounds of mortars and gunfire while working with Karen refugees near the Thai border, stuffed a pack with supplies, and headed toward the fighting in Myanmar, where he saw some of the 200, 000 IDPs. “I had four backpacks full of medicine, so I figured I would respond, ” he said. On the way, he met a lone Karen rebel. Together they hiked to the front lines, where they treated refugees until the medicine ran out. The idea for the Free Burma Rangers was born. As we talked in his solar-powered office at White Monkey Camp, Scott scrolled through a hard drive full of images documenting SPDC brutality—the contorted bodies of children buried in rubble, the bruised limbs and vacant eyes of rape victims, several landmine amputees. By the end of the armys offensive, in 1998, Scott told me, there were four Rangers. In 2001, he held his first six-week FBR boot camp, modeled after his Special Forces training. Today there are approximately 350 Rangers, divided into 70 teams operating in the states of Karen, Kachin, Kayah, and Shan. Each team consists of four to five Rangers: a team leader, a medic, a photographer, videographer, a security specialist to map their route and liaise with rebel armies, and a Good Life Club counselor, who is in charge of the education and health needs of village children. Once trained, the teams are deployed by veteran Rangers, who work with rebel militias and Scott to determine where to send them. David Taw, a high-ranking member of the KNU, lauds the FBRs efforts. “They make a very positive move because they help the ethnics help themselves, ” he said. Scott “has a lot of credit with ethnic groups. ” “FBR has saved the lives of thousands, ” said Roland Watson, the founder of the Burma watchdog site, “by treating life-threatening diseases, helping tens of thousands of people with less serious health issues, and, perhaps most important, bringing hope to a terribly oppressed population. ” But not everybody is thrilled about armed rebels trained by American evangelicals running through the mountains of Myanmar. “It is difficult to say that the FBRs operations are humanitarian, which implies following principles of neutrality and impartiality, ” says Richard Horsey, a former International Labor Organization representative to Myanmar who also advised the U. N. on the international response to the countrys 2008 Cyclone Nargis. “Rather, they are involved in a kind of solidarity work. There is no doubting their commitment and dedication. But the fact that FBR staff carry arms, cooperate closely with particular armed factions, and represents an evangelical Christian ideology in an area of significant religious tensions are all troublesome. ” Its a criticism Scott has heard before. “Regardless of your religion, ” he said, “the evil going on in Burma must be confronted. Little girls are being raped, villages burned. Thats wrong. Im going to do something about it. ” Scott has always been clear that the FBR trains soldiers in rebel movements to relieve the ongoing oppression from the Myanmar government. The FBR does not supply weapons to Rangers, but they are free to arm themselves. “A lot of times, Rangers have to put themselves in harms way, so we dont have any qualms with them carrying a weapon, ” Scott says, but strictly, he emphasizes, for self-defense. “Our role is not to fight the Myanmar Army, and we try not to. ” Meanwhile, late last year, with the world watching, everything seemed to change in Myanmar. After easing restrictions on a highly censored Internet, President Thein Sein, a former high-level general in the military junta, who came to power in 2011, released more than 600 political prisoners. Aung San Suu Kyi, Sans Nobel Prize-winning daughter, whod spent 15 of the previous 21 years under house arrest, began meeting publicly with President Sein and was elected to parliament in April. Even the Kachin seemed to get a reprieve, as President Sein abruptly halted a controversial dam project on the regions Irrawaddy River—which had ignited fighting between the Kachin Independence Organization and the Myanmar Army in June 2011—citing environmental concerns. But despite encouraging political signs and the cautious optimism of some ethnic leaders, the fighting in Kachin continues over its lucrative jade mines and has been exacerbated by the extension of the Shwe oil-and-gas pipeline into China. In the state of Rakhine (formerly Arakan) long-standing tension between ethnic Arakan Buddhists and the Muslim Rohingya people erupted in a deadly race conflict in June, with reports of as many as 100, 000 newly displaced people and government forces firing on unarmed civilians. “The conflicts in Burma wont end until there are free and fair elections, a new constitution that guarantees ethnic self-determination, human rights, and a justice-and-reconciliation committee to address the crimes of the past 60 years, ” Scott says. For many in Myanmars states, where up to 450, 000 IDPs are still hiding in the jungle, the FBR is their only relief. MY FIRST MORNING AT White Monkey Camp, I woke before dawn to call-and-response chants of “Free Burma, Rangers! Free Burma, Rangers! ” The camp consists of two dozen bamboo structures, including Scotts house, where he lives with his wife, Susan (not her real name) and their three children—two daughters, who are 12 and 10 years old, and a seven-year-old son—about two months a year. (The rest of the time theyre in nearby countries, on FBR missions in Myanmar, or in the U. S., where they spend about a month each summer. A sign dangles from above the entrance to their home. A biblical reference, Philippians 4:13, reads: “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. ” Theres also a schoolhouse that doubles as a chapel, as well as an administration office, staffed by a revolving group of 10 Western evangelical volunteers. Hulking mountains, dense jungle, and a creek surround the camp. The FBRs Jungle School of Medicine is a short walk downstream. There, a volunteer American doctor, who ran a hospital in Pakistan, and his staff of volunteer physicians teach medics how to perform amputations, treat gunshot wounds, and cure malaria and diarrhea. Below that a whitewater river rages. The kids pet pygmy pig-tailed macaque, Wesley, is usually nearby. Emerging from a bamboo lean-to, I watched as Scott and his recruits hammered out sets of push-ups, crunches, and pull-ups. When it came time for a training run in the hills, Scott set the pace. One by one, the recruits buckled as the trail went vertical, until there was only a single man on his heels. Khaing Main Thenee, 24, a Buddhist monk from the port city of Sittwe, in Rakhine, marched against the junta in 2007 in what became known as the Saffron Revolution. When the inevitable crackdown came, Thenee and his fellow monks were beaten and teargassed. “We tried to express our desire for freedom peacefully, ” he said, “and they beat us like dogs. ” He shed his robes, joined the Arakan Liberation Party, and was sent here for training. Less than half his commanders age, Thenee should have been able to fly by Scott, but he, too, faded during the final push. Throughout the day, Rangers in training sat in tin-roofed classrooms listening to instruction from a volunteer—a retired Air Force colonel with 20 years of F-15 flight experience—or learned self-defense techniques in a nearby clearing from a former Marine whod done 13 tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Other Western volunteers included a former Amazon employee, a finance guru, a logistics expert, and two recent college grads, who handled administrative tasks and preparations for the FBRs upcoming mission. While I was at White Monkey, the Karen National Union was in active discussions with the Myanmar government about a cease-fire agreement. The government, Scott explained to me, wanted to foster peace through the development of infrastructure, like roads and dams, the idea being that tapping into Karens natural resources will provide prosperity and peace for all. But Scott and other Karen leaders, whom hes formed close relationships with over the years, believe that if not for the Myanmar governments military oppression, the Karen could approach multinational corporations or the World Bank to launch their own development projects, prospering without Myanmars help. Later that night, he gathered his veteran Rangers and Western volunteers in the barnlike map room for an update on a meeting hed attended on the Thai border the day before with exiled KNU leadership. “At the same time the army is attacking the Kachin, and in some places the Karen, theyve asked for a cease-fire, ” Scott told us. “So the KNU asked us to come and pray and think about what to do. I said the cease-fire is up to you, not up to the FBR. We will stand with your group regardless of your decision. “But this war is not about development, ” he continued, becoming more animated. “Its about political freedom. God made us all free, but they wont let you be free. ” A gust of wind scattered loose fliers from the makeshift conference table to the floor. Scott smiled and said, “So lets pray and be open to negotiation, but lets stand by Gods principles. ” This couching of religious messaging within humanitarian assistance rankles even FBR allies. Earlier that day, I had learned that Scott planned to perform a double river baptism the next morning. While he does baptize those who ask for it, and though God is referenced frequently at camp, he makes it clear that he is not a conversion missionary and that all religions are welcome in the FBR. About 20 percent of Karen has been Christian since British missionaries arrived in the 18th century, but it remains mostly Buddhist. Still, the Buddhist Rangers I met werent bothered by FBRs godly bent. “It doesnt matter at all, ” said Thenee, the former Buddhist monk. “Our main purpose is the same, that we work together to help the people. ” Others are less convinced. “It is a problem to try and persuade the people with humanitarian assistance to become a Christian, ” said Mahn Mahn, chief of the Karen State Backpack Health Worker Team, which brings medical care to displaced people. “Personally, I believe in Christ, but religion and politics should be separate. ” Each evening, the Western volunteers, all devout Christians, convened for dinner with Scott and his family. Over meals of charred beef, limp noodles, and Day-Glo-colored cookies stored in ant-and-roach-killer tins, the conversation ranged from Noahs Ark (myth or fact. to homosexuality (is it a lifestyle choice. to the true meaning of “Thou shalt not kill. ” “The Hebrew translation reads: ‘Thou shalt not murder, ” Scott said. When I wandered over to his office later that night, he took a more philosophical approach to the Scripture. “Whether you believe in God or not, weve all got freedom to do good or evil, ” he said. “When people choose to do evil, either as individuals or as systems, and there becomes this pattern, especially when they say their intent is to destroy people, I think then youve got to stand. ” A satellite phone rang. On the other end was an FBR team member in Kachin. The team were hiding out among thousands of internally displaced people, documenting the destruction of 20 villages and other war crimes by Myanmar soldiers. Scott unfurled a map and busily copied down coordinates. AFTER A WEEK AT White Monkey, it was time to begin the trek to Tha Da Der, where FBR Rangers would set up a medical clinic and perform reconnaissance on a Myanmar Army outpost three miles away. In July 2010, villagers in Tha Da Der had endured a brutal assault when nearly 200 invading Myanmar soldiers slaughtered livestock, pilfered rice stores, stole valuables, and torched the village. Wed be joined in Tha Da Der by veteran diplomat Charles Petrie, a French-born former chief of the U. mission in Myanmar who was kicked out of the country in 2007 for publicly siding with the monks during the Saffron Revolution. Recently, he had been in discussions with Myanmars former minister of railways, U Aung Min, who President Sein had brought into his cabinet and put in charge of negotiating peace in the states. As we set off, Scott told me about one of his most dangerous missions, in 2004, when he was leading more than 200 IDPs out of the jungle and his FBR team was fired on for 30 minutes. “An RPG landed 10 yards away, which should kill you, but it hit the slope and impacted out, ” he said. Five months later, in northern Karen, his FBR team were cornered by the SPDC while taking a break near a stream. They sprinted off as the army lit up the trees. Two members of his squad returned fire, resulting in five enemy wounded and one dead. He and his Rangers escaped unharmed. “Contact is rare, and we train our guys that if the army sees you, run, and the first couple of shots will probably miss, ” he said, as Wesley, the family macaque, hitched a ride on his shoulder. It didnt take Scott long to put some distance between us on the trail. Thankfully, his wife, Susan, was soon at my side, as I stared nervously at a buckling bamboo bridge loosely lashed 20 feet above jagged boulders and Class IV rapids. “You can always crawl across, ” she said. Susan, who grew up a devout Christian in Walla Walla, Washington, had been studying to be a teacher when she met Scott in 1992. Their first date was ice climbing up Washingtons Mount Shuxton. “He gave permission to the adventurer in me, ” she said. They were married in 1993 and spent their honeymoon trekking through Shan State. “I remember being in the back of a truck with rebel soldiers, getting jabbed in the ribs with guns and wondering, What are we doing here? ” Susans darkest hour arrived in 2005, when their son was just a month old, and their eldest daughter, five at the time, caught typhus. Her temperature soared to 104, and she was evacuated from White Monkey Camp. “As we were crossing the river, ” Susan recalled, “she perked up and said, ‘When I get better, Im going swimming! ” Two days later their daughter was fine, but their son had pneumonia. Still, she has embraced the lifestyle and finds FBRs work fulfilling. She developed its Good Life Club program to help children affected by the conflict in Myanmar. “Out here, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, ” she says. “Its different than the Starbucks life, but thats the gift of it. ” To ease the stress of constantly moving, Susan makes every camp a haven of domesticity. When we finally arrived at Tha Da Der, she went straight to the house theyd be staying in and began unpacking crayons and coloring books, setting out favorite snacks, and building a fire. Our first morning in the village was a Sunday, and Scott and his family were due in church, a brand-new wooden building on a hill. “This time last year, it was all scorched earth, ” he said. “The army had burned their church and all the houses to the ground. ” Later, I met with Saw Nay Moo Thaw, 45, the former local director of the Karen department of education and a longtime freedom fighter and FBR ally. He showed me the new bamboo school, where nearly 200 children huddled in open-air classrooms. High on a far wall, there was a small battery linked to a rooftop solar panel—Tha Da Ders only current of electricity. “FBR give us this after the burning, ” he said, “so the children can study at night. ” In the rice fields, Ranger medics had set up a tented clinic, and about 80 people had arrived from the surrounding villages for care. I could hear the sounds of an American gospel song being sung nearby by 150 Karen kids, a handful of Rangers, and Susan: Do I love my Jesus Deep down in my heart Do I know my Jesus Deep down in my hea rt Yes, I love my Jesus Deep down in my heart THE NEXT MORNING, AT 5 a. m., 19 men gathered for a reconnaissance mission to the Myanmar Army outpost, among them Thenee, a handful of KNLA rebel soldiers, and their general Baw Kyaw. For two hours, we hiked through mine fields to within a quarter-mile of the army camp. Scott and I leaned against a tree pocked with bullet holes and took turns peering through a Swarovski scope onto a cut in the jungle where a single Myanmar soldier stood next to a fire, making rice. His post, powered by a flexible solar panel, was fronted by the regions only road. Although we were well within rifle and mortar range, the scene was oddly serene, even as seven more soldiers emerged from their tents. “They probably have only 20 or 30 guys down there, ” Scott said. “But in 2007, we saw 400 soldiers, 70 trucks, and nearly 60 prisoners chained together. ” Thenee snapped photos with a Lumix camera. “In two weeks, it will look very different, ” Scott whispered. According to Rangers in the field, there were two bulldozers just days away. “They want to widen the road, which could mean more soldiers and more attacks. ” Kneeling in the bush with his Rangers, surrounded by land mines, Scott was in his element. He and the general whipped out their GPS devices and examined topo maps, plotting like longtime comrades as they mapped out the rest of the FBRs Karen relief mission. Its not unreasonable to look at Scott and wonder what exactly drives him to risk his familys well-being for a battle that, by all rights, is not his to fight. Some believe that, because of his relationships with rebel leaders and his desire for freedom in the ethnic provinces, he may actually be perpetuating the conflict. “For a long time, groups like KNU and KNLA had no other real support, ” Petrie told me. “But the challenge is how do you transform a solidarity movement that is assisting in resistance to become more proactive in the peace process? ” As for Scotts motivation, he admitted that hes partly driven by the physical adventure of his work and by seeing justice in Myanmar. But he says its more than that. “What were doing out here is bigger than democracy or freedom, ” he said. “Its about love. If Im bleeding out on a trail, wondering why I did this to my family, Ill have peace knowing that I carried out Gods love to help people. ” In the 10 months since I left Myanmar, the rebels have embraced more peace—government cease-fire agreements have been signed with Shan, Karen, and Kayah rebels. After initial resistance to the proposed cease-fire, even Scott entertained the possibility of a new era. In March, he had a chance meeting with Aung Min, the leader of Myanmars cease-fire delegation, who opened the door for the FBR to communicate with Myanmar government officials, which Scott is following up on. The two also prayed together. “I felt Gods love with us, ” Scott wrote in an FBR report. Yet the prospect of peace remains cloudy. There are gun battles almost daily between the Kachin Independence Organization and the Myanmar Army, and theres been a buildup of troops in Karen, as well as incidents of forced labor. Despite the cease-fire in Shan, FBR teams report renewed fighting there recently. “I worry that whats happening is a change of mind, not a change of heart, ” Scott said when I reached him by phone in September, as he was making plans for this years White Monkey training camp. “You tell me you want peace and then bring more people in my front yard instead of getting out? That doesnt show sincerity. ” U. lawmakers, who in August renewed sanctions against Myanmar for another year, appear to agree. When I was in Myanmar, during our hike back to Tha Da Der after the recon mission, I asked Scott if he thought Karen State would ever see peace. “I truly believe that if you join your will with his, God can use you to achieve the things he cares about, which are truth, justice, freedom, and love, ” he said. “When this war is over and Burma is free, the ethnic resistance wont be able to say it was weapons that got us there, it will be through God. And Ill be able to say, ‘Thank you, God, for that ride. ” Adam Skolnick. adamskolnick) is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. Lead Photo: Jonathan Torgovnik.
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