Cardinal Charles Maung Bo meets with Rakhine Advisory Commission

06 December 2016
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo meets with Rakhine Advisory Commission
Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yangon Charles Maung Bo. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon told Kofi Anan that religious leaders are there to help end the persecution of the Rohingya in Rakhine as well as the renewed ethnic fighting in Shan state, Vatican Radio reported on 5 December.
The prelate met with the former U.N. chief and other faith leaders during an hour-long meeting lead by the Rakhine Advisory Commission in Yangon on Thursday, Dec. 1.
"Cardinal Bo talked about the important role of religious leaders to bring about peace and reconciliation amid the Rakhine crisis and wars in northern Shan state," Father Dominic Zarbinus, the cardinal's secretary told ucanews.com.
The former United Nations chief Kofi Annan visited people displaced by ongoing conflict in an area near Myanmar's border with Bangladesh Saturday as head of a commission tasked with finding solutions to issues which have raised widespread international ire.