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Textbook Example: Christian Charity and Muslim Minority

textbook example: Last month, 30-year old Li travelled to Malumghat, Bangladesh, where several charities have set up hospitals to help those refugees at a camp that was a one-hour drive away, according to Metro News. About half of the patients we saw were children, said Li, who spent three weeks volunteering at a surgical centre set up by Samaritan's Purse, a Christian charity. Violence has forced more than half a million people in Myanmar's Rakhine State to flee across the border to Bangladesh since August, 2017, according to UNICEF. The UN has described the persecution of Myanmar's Muslim minority as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The camps were incredibly crowded and shelters were little more than huts made out of tin and mud, he told Metro. Jennifer Gauthier/Metro Moses Li is back in Vancouver's St. Sadly, broken bones and gunshot wounds were the most common injuries, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.