Following the bombing of a predominantly Mennonite village in western Myanmar earlier this month, the World Council of Churches (WCC) this week issued a public condemnation of the ongoing violence. While the conflict has raged for decades and counted many communities among its victims, the ruling junta frequently targets ethnoreligious minority communities. The WCC, referencing numbers collected by the Myanmar Peace Monitor, claimed that the junta has struck more than 1,000 civilian locations in the last 15 months.