KAREN refugees will pray tomorrow night for peace in Burma. Karen Buddhist Monk Venerable Moonieinda and Christian pastors will hold a prayer service at the Uniting Church.Tibetan monks from the Atisha Centre and central Victorian Christians are expected to attend.The Burmese military has tortured and killed thousands of Karen people in East Burma.Political activists and Buddhist monks and nuns - including the relatives of Karen refugees living in Bendigo - have been captured and put in jail or labour camps.AusAid is a member of a consortium that has compared the situation in East Burma to Darfur in Sudan.Venerable Moonieinda said the prayer service was the only way he could show support for his people.Similar services would be met with brute force if they were to be conducted in his homeland.“This peaceful prayer can happen in Australia,” he said.“If you tried to do this in Burma you would go to jail.”As well as prayers, the service will include the ethnic minority singing songs and telling stories of their lives as refugees.Christian Karen Taw Doh organised the service.“The Burmese army could destroy my village,” he said.“But they cannot destroy our culture or silence us.”The service will be held at 7.30pm tomorrow night at the Uniting Church, 26 Myers Street, Bendigo.