What price the Afghan refugees?

By Francisco S. Tatad

Jun 26, 2023 12:16 am

FIRST THINGS FIRST

THE Philippines has a well-known history of welcoming to its shores people that have been displaced in foreign wars.

In 1949, President Quirino welcomed the arrival of 6,500 White Russian refugees on Tubabao Island, off Guiuan, Samar. They were coming from China, where they had taken refuge after the Russian revolution, and had to find political asylum elsewhere after the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong took over the Chinese mainland.

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FIRST THINGS FIRST

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