JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
U.N. aid for refugees
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)
LUSAKA, Oct. 29
The United Nations High Commissioner for refugees will provide immediate emergency aid of SUS4O,OOO for the more than 8500 Jehovah’s Witnesses who have fled from Malawi into Zambia.
The money will be handed to the Zambian Government to buy food and other essentials for the refugees. A longer-term aid programme will be considered should Zambia request it. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, housed in a camp at Sinda Misale, near the east Zambian town of Chipata, have been fleeing from Malawi since the sect was strongly denounced at last month’s conference of the Malawi Congress Party. Reliable sources in Blantyres spoke last week-end of widespread persecution of the sect which has been banned in Malawi since 1967, by members of the Congress Party’s youth wing and the Young Pioneer organisation. The sources reported wholesale beatings and the burning of sect-members’ houses, isolated rapes, and some killings.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33060, 30 October 1972, Page 2
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