Lisupha, the author was born in 1961 amid political unrest during the
beginning of a terrible recession in Burma. Shortly before he was born,
all of the Westerners and the British were gone. The economic in the
country was going back toward the era of Myanmar kingdoms! Kachins in
northern Burma, along with many other minority peoples across the
country started their revolution against the military regime of the
ruling Myanmar. The Lisu tribe people, however, were totally different
from those well educated and worldly experienced minority armed groups.
They firmly believed that the Lord's second coming was imminent. They
had no time to waste on economics and politics. What they longed for was
the day that they would see their beloved evangelists in heaven with
the Lord, Savior Christ Jesus. They never thought of joining any armed
rebel groups to kill the government soldiers. They never dared enough to
kill a fellow human created by God. This made the Kachin rebels mad at
the Lisu Christians furiously. They took the Lisu people as cowards and
easy going useless ones. The KIA, Kachin Independence Army decided to
use atrocity means to force the Lisus to come and join with them. No
matter how viciously they dealt with the Lisu people, the Lisus would
not give up their faith. They didn't want a Lisu country on this earth.
Many Lisu people perished under the swords of the KIA and Myanmar
soldiers. Some Lisu men were skinned alive. Some were beheaded. They
came up with new but cruelest ideas about how to torture the Lisu men to
death. The little boy Lisupha have been attempted to kill by some
extremists in Asia during his childhood and youth-hood. There are still
many untold stories about atrocity and crime against humanity committed
by armed groups in Myanmar. Lisupha would like to tell the world
community to know about his people's suffering. We need to protect our
society, our Literature and our faith in the Lord. To protect our
language and our literature means to protect our faith, our life. Thank
you so much for helping and promoting our Lisu life in Myanmar, China,
Thailand and India.
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