Recent History
In recent years a number of New Tribes Mission personnel have been killed by guerrillas in different parts of the world.
In 1993, members of the FARC guerrilla movement abducted three NTM missionaries from a village in Panama and brought them to Colombia where they were killed in 1996. In 1994 two other missionaries were killed after being taken at gunpoint from an NTM school in Colombia.
In May 2001, Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines kidnapped a New Tribes Mission pilot, Martin Burnham, and his wife, Gracia, as they celebrated a wedding anniversary. In June 2002, during a rescue attempt by government troops, Martin Burnham was killed and his wife received non-fatal gunshot wounds to the leg.
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