Kachin FBR Good Life Club Counselor Killed by Burma Army

FBR Report: Kachin FBR Good Life Club Counselor Killed by Burma Army

Kachin State, Burma

25 January, 2013

Dear friends, one our Kachin Rangers, 20 year old Zau Hkawng, a Good Life Club counselor, has been killed by the Burma Army while defending his people in Kachin State. He had been missing in action but his body has now been found. We are very sorry to lose him and pray for his family, team and friends. In the sacrifice of his life Zau Hkawng lived out Jesus’ words, “Greater love has no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends.”

Zau Hkawng a GLC counselor killed by the Burma army

On 16 August 2012, Zau Hkwang was carrying food and giving assistance to Kachin soldiers who were in a line of defense protecting the Kachin people under attack by the Burma Army in Pang Wa, Kachin State. The Burma Army overwhelmed the Kachin position and the Kachin soldiers were forced to retreat.  Zau Hkawng chose to cover their retreat and remained as the last man in the position until all others had escaped. By his actions the Burma Army was not able to kill more of the Kachin and were slowed in the taking of the position. In doing this he lost his life. He was last seen defending the hill alone. His body was recovered on 10 December 2012 after the Burma Army left the immediate area.
Zau Hkawng said he joined the FBR because he loved his people and wanted to serve them well. In his role as a Good Life Club counselor he focused on the needs of women and children. He was a loving, energetic and humble young man who gave his all to anyone who needed help. We thank God for him and for his life and are sad for his death. In the midst of our sorrow we trust that nothing precious is eternally lost in God’s hands. And we believe we will see him again in the place God has prepared for all of us. We honor Zau Hkwang’s courage. His loss makes us more determined to make good his sacrifice for freedom, justice and reconciliation for all in Burma.
May God Bless You,
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ကုုိယ္က်ိဳးစြန္ ့သူရဲေကာင္း ေဇာ္ေခါင္ (Free Burma Rangers)
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Free Burma Rangers (FBR) သူရဲေကာင္း ေဇာ္ေခါင္ (Zau Hkawng) အသက္ ၂ဝ နွစ္ ကိုုဂုုဏ္ျပဳပါတယ္။ မိမိအသက္ကိုု စြန္ ့ၿပီး တိုုင္းျပည္နွင့္ လူမ်ုုိဳးအတြက္ အဆုုံးတိုုင္ ရန္သူကိုု ရြံ ့ရြံ ့ခြ်န္ခြ်န္ ခုုံခံတိုုက္ခဲ့သြားတဲ့ ကိုုယ္က်ဳိးစြန္ ့ သူရဲေကာင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဲၾသဂုုတ္လ ၁၆ ရက္ ၂ဝ၁၂ တြင္ သူရဲေကာင္း ေဇာ္ေခါင္ ဟာ ကခ်င္ျပည္ ပန္ဝါ ေရွ တန္းစခန္းရွိ ရန္သူနဲ ့ေျမျပင္တိုုက္ပြဲ ျဖစ္ေနေသာ ေကအိုု္င္ေအ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္တပ္မေတာ္မ်ား အတြက္ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ သြားေရာက္ ပိုု ့ေနပါသည္။ ထုုိအခ်ိန္တြင္ ရန္သူမွ အင္အားအေျမာက္အမ်ား သုုံး၍ စခန္းသိမ္း ထိုုးစစ္ဆင္လာေသာ ေၾကာင့္ အင္အားခ်င္း မမ်ွ၍ ေနာက္ဆုုတ္ဖိုု ့ျပင္ဆင္လာေသာ အခါ ေဇာ္ေခါင္မွ တဦးတည္း က်န္ရစ္ၿပီး ရန္သူကိုု ရဲရင့္စြာ ခုုခံတိုုက္ခိုုက္ခဲပါသည္။ ၄င္း၏ အသက္စြန္ ့အနွစ္နာခံမွဳသည္ ရန္သူ ့ထိုုးစစ္ေနွာင့္ေနး ေစခဲ့၍ က်န္တည့္ ေကအိုုင္ေအ တပ္မေတာ္မ်ား ထိခိုု္က္ေသဆုုံးမွဳ မရွိေတာ့ပဲ အသက္ေဘးမွ လြတ္ေျမာက္ခဲ့ သည္။ ဘဝေသဆုုံးခ်ိန္ထိ တိုုင္းျပည္နွင့္ လူမ်ိဳးကိုု သိစၥာေစာင့္သိရိုုေသ ခဲ့သူျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁ဝ ရက္ ၂ဝ၁၂ တြင္ ျမန္မာတပ္မ်ား အဆိုုပါ စခန္းမွ စြန္ ့ခြာထြက္ေျပးသြား ခဲ့၍
ကိုုယ္က်ိဳးစြန္ ့မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ သူရဲေကာင္း ဇာ္ေခါင္ ကိုု ရုုပ္ကလပ္ကိုု ျပန္လည္ ရရွိခဲ့ပါသည္။
သူရဲေကာင္း ေဇာ္ေခါင္ ၏ ရဲစြမ္းသတၱိကိုု ေလးစား က်ေနာ္တိုု ့အားလုုံး အလြန္ေလးစားပါသည္။ ေဇာ္ေခါင္ ဘဝေပးစြန္ ့လြတ္ အနွစ္နာခံမွွဳ ေတြ အလာဟသ မျဖစ္ေစရပါ ဟုု ဓိတ္ဌာန္ျပဳပါသည္။