ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a large Indian population, who settled in Burma on the coat-tails of the British in the nineteenth century, and some 200,000 Indians, educated people reduced to destitution by a programme of Burmanization, returned as refugees to their own country. Some of the changes in priorities and programmes notably the withdrawals from China by 1951 and Burma in 1962 were forced by circumstances. Methodist Church Overseas Division (MCOD) played an active part, especially in the Teachers' Programme of the Amity Foundation. Another innovative programme took a young Brazilian theologian, Magali da Cunha, to share in grassroots community work in Britain. KEEP, the Korean Ecumenical Education Programme of the British Churches, was set up with MCOD backing before the 1988 Seoul Olympics; it sought to raise awareness of the Korean people's desire for peace and reconciliation between North and South. But the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 put an end to such hopes.
