Myanmar Delegation Fails to Make Convincing Case for Safe Return

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
@mg2411
July 31, 2019

Rohingya refugee girls cross a makeshift bamboo bridge at Kutupalong refugee camp, where they have been living amid uncertainty over their future after they fled Myanmar to escape violence a year ago, in Bangladesh on Tuesday, August 28, 2018.

Myanmar officials arrived at the sprawling refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh this week to discuss the repatriation of the Rohingya population.

Senate motion urges more action from Liberal government in response to Rohingya crisis.

OTAWA
CITIZEN

May 1, 2019

By: MARIE-DANIELLE SMITH

Critics call Trudeau's government hypocritical for making regretful statements about events such as the Holocaust but failing to do more to stop an ongoing genocide

Rohingya refugees watch as firefighters douse flames after a fire broke out in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, April 24, 2019. AP

OTTAWA — A Senate motion will urge the Liberal government to meet Canada’s international treaty obligations by holding Myanmar accountable for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority.