Ontario Premier: Refugee Camps and Thursday Night

ontario premier: Rae's interim report said refugee camps are deplorably overcrowded and pose a threat to human health and life itself, according to CBC. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed the former Ontario premier earlier this year to give him advice on the humanitarian crisis, which the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing. Bob Rae issued his interim report on Thursday night on the crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh because of a crackdown by Myanmar security forces. Seeing these words in print makes me realize how inadequate words are to express the extent of the damage and trauma.'- Bob Rae in his interim report Rae travelled to Bangladesh earlier this year to see the situation and has also met with a number of leaders, officials and non-governmental organizations in the region. Rae said those accounts included sexual violence as a weapon of war and there is clear evidence of sexual trauma among the women who survived. His interim report drew particular attention the plight of women, saying he heard detailed and graphic accounts from women who made it to Bangladesh about sexual violence and abuse at the hands of the Myanmar military. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.