Five years since 2017 exodus, concrete action is needed on Rohingya refugees

Canada should seize this window of opportunity and proactively offer resettlement accompanied by educational assistance.

Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh in 2018. There has been no meaningful progress for their return home. Indeed, despite fruitless attempts by China to broker an agreement between Bangladesh and Myanmar for repatriation, the situation has only worsened, write Fen Osler Hampson, Saifullah Muhammad, and John Packer.U.K. Department for International Development photograph by Russell Watkins

Opinion

BY Fen Osler Hampson, Saifullah Muhammad, and John Packer

August 22, 2022

Crammed inside bamboo and tarpaulin huts perched precariously atop mud hills along Bangladesh’s southern border with Myanmar, a million Rohingya refugees wonder whether the world has forgotten them. The fifth anniversary of their Aug. 25, 2017, mass exodus in the face of brutal attacks by Myanmar...

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