Tibetan communities devastated by Nepal quake

On 25 April, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal leaving more than 8,000 people dead and thousands homeless. The earthquake caused much devastation amongst Tibetan communities both in Nepal and Tibet. Ten Tibetans are reported to have died in Nepal and, according to Chinese state media, 25 in Tibet. A second earthquake hit Nepal on 12 May. CLC Missions team are praying for more assistance from our Christian relief partners to be forthcoming. Father Jim Thomas and Jake Sanders from CLC Missions will be reporting more on this during his visit to Nepal in October 2015.

Montagnard Refugees Documented in Cambodian Jungle

Montagnard Refugees Documented in Cambodian Jungle PHNOM PENH — ; At least 85 Montagnard refugees from Vietnam are hiding in Cambodia's malaria-infested jungles, Radio Free Asia Axel Martin reports in an exclusive story. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday dismissed reports of Christian Montagnard refugees in the area and threatened to remove by force any who might flee there. Correspondents for RFA's Khmer service met at least 85 Montagnards — ; all members of Vietnam's mostly Protestant, minority hilltribes — ; currently hiding in the deep jungles of Rattanakiri Province. The Montagnards, who are split into 14 small groups, include 61 men, eight women, and 16 children aged from 20 months to 13 years. In separate interviews, they said they lacked food and drinkable water and were suffering from malaria as well as unexplained fevers and rashes. Many said they had fled central Vietnam's Gia Lai Province after tens of thousands of Montagnards staged a demonstration April 10-11 to demand religious freedom, independence, and the return of their ancestral lands. The Montagnards suffered hundreds of injuries and at least 10 deaths during a crackdown by police and pro-government mobs, according to witnesses. Several said they had been beaten, jailed, and persecuted by Vietnamese authorities after the protest. 17family150.jpg Montagnard family in Cambodia, July 2004 Photo: Ratha Visal © ; 2004 RFA Romah Fu, 33, also from Gia Lai Province, said Vietnamese police beat him until they broke several ribs after he refused to renounce his religious beliefs while in custody for joining the Easter protests. He fled, he said, when he learned that four Vietnamese soldiers had been asking after him. Another man, Sev Huch, 40, of the Jaray ethnic group, now lives in a tiny shelter covered with waterproof canvas, along with his wife and seven young children. Sev Huch said he was arrested by Vietnamese authorities during the Easter demonstrations but was later freed conditionally. After he protested his treatment in detention, he said, police were looking for him — ; so he packed up his family and fled across the border. "Please help us," he said, speaking through a translator in the Jaray minority language. "Please have pity on us." Another man reported through an interpreter: "We demanded the right to own our ancestral land and cultivate it, but many of us were jailed. We were afraid, so we fled to Cambodia." On Monday, the Cambodian Interior Ministry said there was no evidence to back up reports that Montagnard refugees were living in the border jungles. A day later, Hun Sen told journalists such reports were spread by "liars." Hun Sen agreed, however, to let the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) open offices in northeastern Cambodia, though he warned they should not become refugee camps. The Cambodian government has objected to UNHCR efforts to help the Montagnards, saying they are not political refugees but economic migrants. More than 160 were deported from northeastern Cambodia in April alone. "Who can we help when there is no person?" Hun Sen asked. "I don't know how and whom to distribute [aid] to since there is no person to give it to.'" Hun Sen also warned that he would use military force to crack down on the Montagnards if they set up clandestine bases inside Cambodia to fight for a separate homeland in Vietnam. The Montagnards, who fought with U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, differ from other Vietnamese in their ethnic background and their religious faith. The top UNHCR official in Asia, Jean-Marie Fakhouri, accused Cambodia in May of failing in its international obligations in its treatment of the Montagnards. In June, an official with the Cambodian Interior Ministry's Central Office for Security told RFA that nearly 100 Montagnards were in UNHCR custody in Phnom Penh. In 2001, more than 1,000 Montagnards fled to Cambodia following a massive government crackdown on their protests against religious repression and land confiscation. Many eventually resettled in the United States.

Global Hope Network and IPPNW 2010 Conference.

Hi all, we just attended the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War Conference in Basel, Swtizerland. We were with our dear brother in Christ, Richard Holt, from the Geneva office of Global Hope Network (http://globalhopenetwork.org/) Also Major General Vinod Saighal and Long hair Leung Kwok Hung from HK We made many new friends and there will be more updates on those people and how they will be involved in our humanitarian, human rights and refugee assistance work.Have a look at the website @ - http://www.ippnw2010.org/

Fr.Jim Thomas
ACHRVN Director
amandfm@mail.com
Chiang Mai and Mae Sot,Thailand

CLC Mission -North Korean Refugee Rescue since 2002

No matter which way we look at the evidence, the practical outcomes of what were, undoubtedly, good intentions, are, at best mixed. NGO's don't work well together. Some demonstrate surprising political ignorance. As often as not, speaking in particular from CLC Missions' experience,our collective efforts are overshadowed by the diversion of resources into "turf-wars", bitter-infighting and senseless character assassinations.

Add to these divisions frequent failures to come up with practical action plans, tailored as closely as possible to the recognizable self-interests of those we target politically, results of our actions are as often counterproductive,or ineffectual, as they are effective. Three to four years ago, few would dispute that there was an effective "underground railroad" of guides and safehouses capable of moving thousands of displaced North Koreans out of China to South Korea,or other destination countries, via Laos,Mongolia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. A few years ago Immigration authorities largely turned a blind eye to the efforts of aid workers helping to move the displaced on to third countries. Many were forcibly returned to North Korea, that is true, but it is also true that NGO's maintaining a low profile and working quietly were largely left alone.

The crunch point came when some NGO's, decided pretty much unilaterally, that high profile attempts to "rescue" would be more effective.In particular high profile "rescues" which were more intended to raise the profile and attract funding for NGO groups like Human Rights Without Frontiers.

"Rescue stars",HRWF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_in_Hong_Kong

HRWF Int'l (02.04.2008) - Website: - Email: - On Thursday 27 March at 11.55 am (Laos time), 12 North Korean citizens made their way to the embassy of South Korea in Vientiane with the help of Human Rights Without Frontiers to ask for protection and political asylum.

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Our gospel message is neither condescending nor condemning. It is I hope one grounded in the compassionate and reconciliatory truths of Jesus' gospel calling us to welcome the outcasts, Love God, and avoid hypocrisy.

Welcome to China Laos Christian Mission

Welcome to CLC Mission!

Our international team of Christian Missionaries work in the border areas of Laos,China,Thailand and Burma.We focus on bringing the Gospel to hill tribe people in these regions.CLCM operates four houses in these remote areas with regular Bibile study Sunday School and worship services.CLCM also conducts weddings,funerals and Baptisms.

Mission Director

Jake Sanders