Myanmar, formerly Burma, is a beautiful country. However, the country is technically in a Civil War! For several years, Burma was ruled by military rulers who had overthrown her first post-colonial government. The military junta ruled Burma until 2010 when a general election returned the country to democracy. This made Burma a pariah State. Her democratically elected President, Aung San Suu Kyi, was deposed and placed, once again, under house arrest.
Miss Suu Kyii, fell from grace when she remained silent when more than a million Rohingya refugees were driven from Myanmar to Bangladesh by the military during her reign! Sadly, the military took arms and seized power again after the 2020 General elections. However, the whole country wasn’t ready for such a coup. The whole population rose up and staged a protest against the military, who brutally killed dissenters.
The brutality of the military caused the nation to support the use of arms against the military junta. Millions of people secretly support the various armed civilian-resistance movements scattered across the nation. Hundreds of young people have lost hope of education or getting decent jobs. These have signed up to join the resistance movements. Through these armed movements, the population is fighting back to claim back territory and power from the military.
Subsequently, the nation of Burma, is once again, in a Civil War. The nation has never known peace for decades, and sadly, its temporal peace has been shattered and the hopes of many, have been lost. The situation in Burma presents a very sad example of how the thirst for power by a few can jeopardize the lives and future of the majority. The few are determined to silence opposition and rule the majority with an iron fist because of their possession of arms.
In Egypt, the first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was toppled in a coup d’etat after one year in office in 2013. He was placed in prison, where he died in 2019. The Egyptians had demonstrated on the streets during the Jasmine Revolution and Arab Spring to seek the removal of then-president, Hosni Mubarak. Unfortunately, the new leader, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has cracked down on all dissents and opposition. He has either killed or arrested all those who opposed his rule and banned Mohamed Morsi’s party, the Muslim Brotherhood. He changed the constitution to enable him to rule up to 2030, making nonsense of all the uprisings against Hosni Mubarak! In his own words, El-Sisi said:
“Be warned, what happened seven or eight years ago will not be repeated in Egypt,” he said in 2018. “You don’t seem to know me well enough. No, by God, the price of Egypt’s stability and security is my life and the life of the army.”
A similar situation has affected Somalia for decades, making it a failed state. Millions of Somalians have fled their motherland, died, or are living in very inhumane conditions. Al-Shabab, control several regions in Somalia, raping women and forcefully conscripting young people into the rebel group.
It was this same thirst for power that made Lucifer wrestle with God and His angels in Heaven (Revelation 12:7). Wherever the spirit of Satan reigns, oppression and war are never far away!! When France threw away the Bible and embraced the goddess of reason, their revolution soon followed and Paris was drenched in blood.
As the Spirit of God and pure Biblical truths and principles are cast away from Earth, the Earth shall never know peace. War, bloodshed, violence, and unprintable crimes, shall be commonplace…
The laws of any land, cannot reform any human. Only the Spirit of God can make us human. Love, mercy, kindness, honesty, and integrity: attributes that make us human, are from God. For we were made in His image and His likeness.
