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A Critical Humanitarian Emergency

On October 6, 2017 By Harry and Annie Bergshoeff

Humanitarian organizations are very worried about the well-being of hundreds of thousands of people affected by the recent violence in the northern Rakhine State in Myanmar. A military crackdown has sent over a half-million members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya people fleeing across the border into Bangladesh. International concern is growing over the fate of the families who have been fleeing this army campaign in the Rakhine state that the United Nations says has included killings, rape and the torching of villages.

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Bangladesh

On September 27, 2017 By Harry and Annie Bergshoeff

The pictures on the news and in the papers (from Myanmar and Bangladesh) have been horrendous.  Since August 25, extreme violence has forced more than 430,000 Rohingya people to flee their homes and take refuge in Bangladesh. Although the Rohingya oppression has been going on for decades, this current crisis has been labelled as a case of “genocide” and it is the largest (and newest) major humanitarian crisis in the world.

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