Engineers association to launch relief programme for Rohingya Muslims

AMMAN — The Jordanian Engineers Association (JEA) is planning to launch a fundraising campaign for the relief of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, in cooperation with the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO), JEA President Majed Ali Al Tabbaa told The Jordan Times on Thursday.

The campaign aims to provide medical, financial and in-kind subsidies to “relieve the pain of this minority suffering from the ethnic cleansing, and to draw the public attention of Jordan and the Arab world to the crimes occurring in that territory”, Tabbaa said.

The JEA announced that several professional associations started meeting with JHCO Secretary General Ayman Al Mufleh to discuss ways to cooperate on the programme. “We consider the killing and displacement of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be a crime against humanity and an act of ethnic cleansing, to which the international community has long been negligent,” expressed Tabbaa, who condemned the crimes and called for an immediate intervention to stop the atrocities.