Benedict Rogers is the East Asia Team Leader at the human rights organization “Christian Solidarity Worldwide”. He has travelled to Myanmar and its borders more than fifty times. In 2013, he was baptized and received into the Church in Myanmar by Cardinal Charles Bo in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Yangon. He is the author of three books on Myanmar: Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads (Rider, 2012-2016); Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant (Silkworm, 2010), A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People (Lion Hudson, 2004). He also wrote the spiritual memoir From Burma to Rome: A Journey into the Catholic Church (Gracewing, 2015), and is a regular
contributor to several international media.