More than 600,000 Rohing­ya Muslim­s have fled Buddhi­st-majori­ty Myanma­r since late August­DHAKA: Film star Angelina Jolie has condemned sexual violence inflicted on Rohingya women in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where a military counter-insurgency operation has sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees across the border to Bangladesh. Jolie, a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a Bangladesh delegation in the Canadian city of Vancouver that she planned to visit the Rohingya victims of sexual violence. Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie open up about harassment“Later she mentioned accordingly in her keynote speech about the sexual violence faced by almost each female Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh and condemned the armed conflict in Myanmar,” Bangladesh’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday. On Thursday, New York based Human Rights Watch accused Myanmar security forces of committing widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing. There were already about 300,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh before the most recent exodus.

Source: The Express Tribune November 16, 2017 10:57 UTC