Cardinal Charles Bo, Burma's most senior churchman, has said the military are continuing to persecute ethnic Kachin, a predominantly Christian group in a conflict-torn part of the country.
Speaking on September 1 at a peace forum in South Korea, Cardinal Bo said the suffering the Rohingya have endured has captured the world's attention. He described their plight as an "appalling scar on the conscience of my country," ucanews.com reported.
Yet, he continued, other targeted groups are being overlooked as ethnic fighting rages on in northern Burma, with thousands of ethnic minorities having been injured, killed and displaced.
