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Angelina Jolie to visit Bangladesh to meet Rohingya women
Actress Angelina Jolie at the 21st Annual Hollywood Film Awards – Arrivals - Beverly Hills, California, US on November 5, 2017 Reuters
Accusations of organised mass rape and other crimes against humanity were leveled at the Myanmar military on Sunday by another senior UN official
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie told a Bangladesh delegation in Vancouver, Canada that she planned to visit Rohingya women living in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
She 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 refugees across the border to Bangladesh.
Jolie is a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
“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.
However, it gave no details of Jolie’s proposed trip.
More than 607,000 Rohingya have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since late August, driven out by the military’s actions that a top United Nations official has described as a classic case of “ethnic cleansing.”
Accusations of organised mass rape and other crimes against humanity were leveled at the Myanmar military on Sunday by another senior UN official, who had toured camps in Bangladesh where Rohingya refugees have taken shelter.
Pramila Patten, the special representative of the UN secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, said she would raise accusations against the Myanmar military with the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
In parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh would overcome obstacles to resolve the Rohingya crisis, with the help of the international community.
“I strongly believe we will find a peaceful solution to the unprecedented crisis with the help of the international community, despite various obstacles,” she said.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2017/11/16/angelina-jolie-condemns-sexual-violence-rohingya-women/
- Reuters
- Published at 03:00 PM November 16, 2017
- Last updated at 04:48 PM November 16, 2017
Actress Angelina Jolie at the 21st Annual Hollywood Film Awards – Arrivals - Beverly Hills, California, US on November 5, 2017 Reuters
Accusations of organised mass rape and other crimes against humanity were leveled at the Myanmar military on Sunday by another senior UN official
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie told a Bangladesh delegation in Vancouver, Canada that she planned to visit Rohingya women living in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
She 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 refugees across the border to Bangladesh.
Jolie is a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
“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.
However, it gave no details of Jolie’s proposed trip.
More than 607,000 Rohingya have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since late August, driven out by the military’s actions that a top United Nations official has described as a classic case of “ethnic cleansing.”
Accusations of organised mass rape and other crimes against humanity were leveled at the Myanmar military on Sunday by another senior UN official, who had toured camps in Bangladesh where Rohingya refugees have taken shelter.
Pramila Patten, the special representative of the UN secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, said she would raise accusations against the Myanmar military with the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
In parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh would overcome obstacles to resolve the Rohingya crisis, with the help of the international community.
“I strongly believe we will find a peaceful solution to the unprecedented crisis with the help of the international community, despite various obstacles,” she said.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2017/11/16/angelina-jolie-condemns-sexual-violence-rohingya-women/
