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.

UN aid chief: No progress so Rohingya can return to Myanmar.

Mail online
30 April 2019
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. humanitarian chief said Monday there has been "no progress" in dealing with the reasons why more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh from western Myanmar's Rakhine state.