MYANMAR: JOINT APPEAL FROM CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS, "FINDING A PEACEFUL SOLUTION" (2)” “” “

” ” ” “"All of us – reads the message – are deeply worried for the current situation and turmoil in the country". The appeal was made during the current visit of the UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, who met the Nobel Prize winner Auns San Suu Kyi, who has been arrested for nearly 12 years, and tomorrow will have an interview with general Than Shew. In the meantime, the 600,000 Catholics of the country are praying in the Churches "for the good of the nation", and some of them, especially students and university student, have paraded with the monks and protesters. But the fragmentary news and the evidence coming from Myanmar are not encouraging: they speak of roundups and killings in the monasteries, arrests of children monks, inspections and searches. The figures, which can hardly be checked, speak of 700 monks arrested and 500 people all over the country and at least 9 (but the media and the diplomatic sources speak of at least 200) killed by the army.” “