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FBR Annual Report 2019 Free Burma Ranger Annual Report 2019 “I want to go back and help until it is finished… I am able to go and help because of God.” Zau Seng, FBR Kachin RANGER & CAMERAMAN - KILLED IN SYRIA IN 2019 Free the Oppressed FREE BURMA RANGERS OUR MISSION OUR VISION To free the oppressed and to stand for To bring help, hope and love to people of all human dignity, justice and reconciliation. faiths and ethnicities in conflict areas, to shine a light on the actions of oppressors, to stand with the oppressed and support leaders and organizations committed to liberty, justice and service. 2 OUR OBJECTIVES 1. To inspire, train and equip people 3. To develop information networks that spiritually, physically, relationally and document, report and disseminate professionally to bring positive change accounts of human rights violations and through acts of love and service. provide an early warning system. 2. To provide immediate medical assistance, 4. To provide prayer and counseling for shelter, food, clothing, educational victims of human rights abuses and materials and other humanitarian aid in to support programs for women and war zones and to improve logistics and children. medical evacuation. 5. To train, equip and sustain indigenous humanitarian relief teams in the field. FBR AND KAREN VILLAGERS RIDE WITH FLAGS FOR FREEDOM 3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear friends, democracy. Over one million and transformation that Jesus can give Thank you for your help and prayers Rohingya have been displaced and to any life. all these years. From Burma to Sudan, are not able to come home. In Arakan In the fall of 2019, after the U.S. from Kurdistan to Iraq and on to Syria, State this year, heavy fighting displaced broke its promise to stand with and you have helped us serve in love. In over 70,000 people. In northern protect the Kurds, Christians, Yezidis 2019 the 92 FBR relief teams gave help, Burma, over 100,000 people remain and Arabs of Northeast Syria who hope, and love in the war zones of displaced as fighting continues. helped us in the fight against ISIS, Burma, in the last stronghold of ISIS In Karen State, the Burma Army Turkey and its proxies immediately as it fell in Syria, and responded to the repeatedly violates the ceasefire. invaded. invasion of Northeast Syria by Turkey displacement fluctuates from Over 300,000 people were and its proxies. In all these missions 1,000 to 3,000 with each attack. we depend on God’s leading and help displaced and many were killed and the support and prayers of our In Sudan there is a ceasefire in the and wounded. friends. Our family and teams have Nuba Mountains but in South Sudan We went to help those under attack been in Burma serving with the people the situation has become worse. In and it was during this relief mission for over twenty-six years and for the Kurdistan and Iraq we continue to that our teammate, Zau Seng, was past six years, we’ve also been invited provide humanitarian assistance and killed by the Turkish forces as he to help in other places like Sudan, medical care for wounded people documented the attacks. Kurdistan, Iraq, and Syria. Many of our we rescued during the battle for Rangers have been wounded and killed Mosul and have given aid to children This was a great tragedy but we on these relief missions and on Nov. 3, whose parents were killed in the believe his loss was not in vain and 2019, Zau Seng, a Kachin medic and ongoing protests in Baghdad. In Syria that God will bring good from the evil videographer, was killed while with us we provided relief in the battle for there. on a mission in Syria. Baghouz, the last stronghold of ISIS in Syria. We fed over 25,000 and treated Zau lived the words of Jesus, In Burma, the military still attacks over 4,000 wounded ISIS family “Greater love has no one than its own people and it is not a true members. this: to lay down one's life for It was a one's friends” (John 15:13 NIV). blessing to be able to Zau gave his life for his friends and share Jesus’s prayed for his enemies. love with ISIS Please pray for all those who commit families and evil and please join us as we stand to develop in love with those under oppression. friendships Prayer changes our hearts, showing a with many of way of love and showing us that even the children though the things of this world are and some of fatal, they are not final. With God, the parents. nothing truly precious is eternally lost. No one is Thank you for joining us in prayer and beyond hope for helping our teams share help, hope, and, while and love. evil like May God bless you, ISIS must be stopped, we have the opportunity David, Karen, Sahale, Suu, and Peter to share the Eubank and all the Free Burma redemption Rangers 4 Table of Contents Letter from the Director 4 Maps/mission stats 6 FBR training 8 FBR Programs 10 Aviation - 11 Chaplaincy - 12 Information - 13 JSMK - 14 Good life Club - 16 Reports from the Field 20 Burma Update - 21 Middle East Update - 26 NEW WAYS TO 2019 Finances 30 LEARN ABOUT FBR Documentary In Memoriam 31 FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO PURCHASE, VISIT: FBRMOVIE.COM BOOK AVAIlABLE FOR PURCHASE ON AMAZON KAREN LANDMINE VICTIM DEFENDING HIS PEOPLE 5 AREAS OF OPERATION BURMA Relief Teams ARAKAN STATE ARAKAN: 9 Full-TIme, 6 PART-TIME KACHIN STATE Partner Organizations: Arakan Liberation Party and Arakan Army. CHIN STATE SAGAING CHIN: 4 Full-Time, 3 PART-TIME DIVISION KACHIN STATE KACHIN: 2 Full-time, 6 Part-Time Partner Organizations: Kachin CHIN Independence Organization and Kachin STATE SHAN STATE National Organization. KAREN STATE KAREN: 26 FUll-Time, 8 PART-TIME Partner Organizations: Karen National Union. KARENNI STATE KARENNI STATE ARAKAN KARENNI: 3 Full-TIme, 6 PART-TIME STATE Partner Organization: Karenni National Progressive Party and UKSY. KAREN STATE MON SAGAING DIVISION STATE NAGA: 2 Full-Time, 3 PART-TIME SHAN STATE SHAN: 6 Full-TIme, 6 PART-TIME Partner Organizations: Restoration Council of the Shan State and Shan State Progressive Party. BURMA NUMBERS PA-OH: 1 Full-TIme, 1 PART-tIME Partner Organization: Pa-Oh National Missions in Burma: 86 Liberation Organization. LAHU: 2 Full-TIme Number of Patients Treated: 65,000 TA’ANG: 8 PART-TIME Number of people helped: 120,000 Partner Organization: Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Total Number of Teams: 105 6 Turkey Qamishli Dohuk Ras al-ayn Kobane Iran Tal Abyad Tal Khana Sor Mosul Afrin Membij Tamir AL-Hol Sinjar Erbil Ayn Issa Aleppo Raqqa Playgrounds installed Idlib Tabqa Jihadist Rebels Deir Kurdistan ez-Zor Syrian Democratic Forces TIGRIS River BAGHoUZ Assad Regime SYRIA Turkish incursion Syrian Rebels Euphrates River site of Zau Seng’s death Baghdad Damascus IRAQ Basra Middle east Numbers 25,000 People provided with food, water and hygiene supplies in February and March, during the fighting for Baghouz. 4,000 Patients treated in February and March during the fighting for Baghouz. 30,000 People provided with food, water and other relief supplies in the Hassaka Province of northeast Syria during the attacks of the Turks and FSA, October and November 2019. 10,000 People provided with food, water and other relief supplies in the Kobane area, during the attacks of Turkey and the FSA. Headquarters 153 3 active teams Wounded civilians or SDF soldiers rescued and treated by FBR 2 teams work all over Burma and 1 medics in October and November of 2019. 84 more dead were works in the Middle East as well. evacuated. 7 FBR Training The 2019 Free Burma Ranger Servant Leadership and Relief Team Training was conducted from Oct. to Dec. 2019. 140 people from across Burma participated in the training including 102 new basic students, making up 22 new FBR teams. 20 advanced students, partnering with 18 students from JSMK, made up our advanced training, going deeper into the topics they had learned in their basic training the previous year. This year students came from eight different ethnic groups and represented ten different ethnic organizations. FBR had five Arakan basic teams and one advanced team, as well as four Shan basic teams. The Karen, Karenni, Kachin, Naga, Lahu, and Chin also sent men and women to be trained. One focus this year was on having the ethnic leaders teach and lead as many classes as possible. From start to finish, our ethnic headquarters leaders did an amazing job running the training, dealing Graduation took place on Dec. 26 and part with problems together, and making sure of the celebration was baptizing four Rangers. that this was one of the best trainings ever Three were new Rangers and one was JSMK delivered. The staff that leads the training is staff. made up of instructors and junior instructors, all who have been through FBR training and After graduation the teams divided into four involved with FBR for many years. Most of the groups to complete follow-on relief missions, ethnic groups that send teams also send an together with instructors. They will have instructor. an opportunity to practice their new skills on a real mission but with instructors and This year the Kachin team travelled to camp experienced Rangers available for further with Zau Seng, one of FBR’s most beloved coaching and feedback. instructors and headquarters leaders. When Zau was killed serving in Syria in November, Once finished with the mission, they will the leaders and students mourned together.
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