Mass Resettlement Underway of Burmese Refugees

Mass Resettlement Underway of Burmese Refugees

RANGOON/MAE LA (BosNewsLife)— There was hope Friday, August 3, for hundreds of Burmese refugees, many of them Christians, as the United States continued a « mass resettlement » effort, a major human rights group said.

US-based Christian Freedom International (CFI) said Bertha Say Dah and Mercy Htoo, two teenage girls from what it described as « war-ravaged Burma », also known as Myanmar, are among the refugees settling in the United States. The two learned English, computer skills, science and the Bible at a vocational school run by Christian Freedom International in the border town of Mae Sot in Thailand, not far from the Mae La refugee camp.