The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is reportedly continuing its humanitarian help to the displaced Rohingya Muslims.
I find it quite surprising when critics question the viability of international bodies like the UN or the OIC. They never cease to question their worth when they fail to resolve certain problems, but they never take pains to mention what they are doing.
When Rohingyas — the wretched community — is left to fend for themselves and when people tend to forget their sufferings, the OIC is sustaining its efforts to reach out to them.
The OIC arranged for aid packages to be distributed to Rohingya refugees across Southeast Asia. We are told that there are over 40,000 registered Rohingya refugees in Malaysia alone.
And certainly OIC could do it only after the member states came forward to lend a helping hand to them. It has become possible because the world has such an organization to cooperate with.
Qatar for instance has donated no less than $50 million while Turkey announced it would give $1 million and would also send a Turkish naval ship with aid workers to assist the migrants. Pakistan made a special grant of $5 million in food aid to be distributed to Rohingya refugees in Myanmar as well as those in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
These are a sample of ongoing OIC efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees. And this is a reminder of what UN must be doing in terms of alleviating the sufferings of people in many regions of the world both due to natural calamities and man-made disasters.
It’s very easy to criticize but it is very difficult to initiate such programs on individual, community or regional level for the mankind. — Syed Khalil, London
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