More than two-thirds are women and children, many of whom were victims of sexual violence or some continuing form of exploitation. They’ve swelled the ranks of fleeing Rohingya in Bangladesh to 900,000. That’s just some of the scene that awaits Bob Rae, Canada’s newly appointed special envoy to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Aid agencies say 70 per cent of those fleeing are women and children. They don’t know what’s going to happen.”The indignities continue, said Wemerman, who pointed out that 200 people are being forced to share a single latrine –makeshift bathrooms that aren’t particularly private.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 13:30 UTC