PWRDF to contribute $20K for Rohingya relief
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article41372
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 November
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 November
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 9
- Page
- 7
- Notes
- "The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is contributing $20,000 to a planned food assistance program for the Rohingya people of Myanmar, victims of what a United Nations official has called 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'. More than half a million Rohingyas have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown against Rohingya insurgents in Rakhine state August 25 [2017]. The Rohingyas are a predominantly Muslim minority living in mostly Buddhist Myanmar". "In September [2017], Nobel laureate and retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene in the escalating crisis, saying, 'If the political price to your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too high'."
- Subjects
- Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) - Bangladesh
- Disaster relief - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Rohingya (Burmese people) - Burma
- Myanmar - Politics and government - 1988-
- Aung San Suu Kyi, 1945-
- Tutu, Desmond M. (Desmond Mpilo), 1931-2021