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^I^GEIWAY GROUPS

HUMANITARIAN

APPEAL/or BOSNIA f >

& HERZEGOVINA

two hours during the morning of Friday,
^Ajuary 16, the key corporate players in town
llBenior government officials have experienced At the launch. YAB Dato Seri Dr Mahathir flanked by Tan Sri Liin
^ ^ K y touching moment together, during the Kok Wing, YB Datuk Ahn Hassan, Acting Minister of Foreign
of the Global Humanitarian Appeal for Ministry. Minister of Refugees & Social Policy front Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Dato' Seri Dr Jeffrey Cheah.
Bosnia and Herzegovina.

H p solemn event was launched by none other
our Honourable Prime Minister, YAB Dato
Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, who has always
championed the collection of effort and strength
to reconstruct the war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Apart from the exhibition of enlarged pictorials,
depicting brutal, mass destruction and killings in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Main Auditorium of
Memorial Tunku Abdul Rahman at Jalan Dato'
Onn, on that morning was choked with silent
memories.
YAB Dato Sen Dr Mciluilhir and Duiiii Seri Dr Sili Hasinah,
eevem was jointly sponsored by LimKokWing admiring the hook on Bosnia with some of the Bosnian children at
the exhibition.
Integrated and the SungeiWay Group and
supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The delegates and the public at large were given
objective of the appeal was to create awareness directive information to which they could make
and rally for worldwide support in the their contributions of various kinds.
rehabilitation of a country that has been brutalised
and ravaged. Although diplomatic peace effort
finally reached in December 1995, the Finally, a tour of the exhibition by the Prime
iving civilians who have to carry on with the Minister, accompanied by some luckier Bosnian
haunting echo of pain, need basic amenities such children ended the 2-hour event.
^ f o o d and medicine to rebuild their lives. K Y Woo
Sungei Way Management
^ >s event was organised with the hope that we
mod ^^^^^"^^ ^^^^ th^" that. The programme
I fc ^ "ced the crippled country with the screening

j|* Video that has captured some of the many
of the ^^^^^^ human sufferings and aftermath
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. ^hathir, via Internet, as it was the most
•opriate
medium to reach the world. The