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generous...your Donations: Textbook Example and Muslim-Minority Population

generous...your donations: They want to do their part, said Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau, according to CBC. The needs on the ground are huge, particularly for women and children who represent 70 per cent of new refugees since August. In the face of this crisis, I know that Canadians want to help. I invite all Canadians to be generous...your donations will save lives and will help more than 900,000 refugees to recover their sense of dignity until they are able to return to their homes to live, hopefully, in peace and security, Bibeau said. The latest surge follows a brutal Myanmar army-led campaign against the Muslim-minority population that the UN human rights chief has described as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The United Nations refugee agency estimates that since Aug. 25, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and are now in Bangladesh, joining an existing Rohingya refugee population of roughly 300,000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.