A: Language focus:
| 1. To urge: | Formal to strongly advise an action: Financial experts are urging caution. |
| 2. Ethnic cleansing: | the use of violence to remove everyone of a particular race or religion from a country or area |
| 3. Uphold: | To support a decision, principle, or law: Police officers are expected to uphold the law. |
| 4. To flee: | to leave a place quickly because you are in danger or are afraid: Police think the suspect has now fled the country. |
| 5. Makeshift: | temporary and low quality: makeshift shelters |
B: watch without subtitles and fill in the blanks:
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has ________Myanmar authorities to end violence __________ Rohingya Muslims, saying the situation there could best be described as _________ _____________.
“I call on the Myanmar authorities to __________ military action, ____ the violence, _________ the rule of law and recognize the right of return of all those who had to leave the country,”
Since last month, some 380,000 refugees have ________ a security crackdown in Myanmar’s mainly Buddhist Rakhine State.
The humanitarian situation there is “catastrophic”, according to the U.N., which called ____ all countries to help supply aid.
Myanmar’s government say it’s targeting violent militants. But the exodus has flooded neighbouring Bangladesh.
Across the border, new villages have popped up: ____________ camps as far as the eye can see.
C: Read the quotes below and think about the questions.
- “Humanity is but a single brotherhood: So make peace with your brethren.” The Quran
- “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” Buddha
- Is there any justification for killing in the name of God? Is it not true that
all religions share an essential belief in God as compassionate and just? - Would you consider killing if a neighboring country invaded your territories?
- Have we learned anything from the past? I descend from survivors of the Armenian Genocide and I still see such heinous acts being committed in front of the so-called “civilized world.”
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Sarkis
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