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Malaysian Delegation: Development Program and Refugee Camps

malaysian delegation: The team visited a hospital set up by Malaysia and distributed relief goods in another camp, according to CTV. It is very important that we're here, because what the Rohingya people are going through is despicable and it's very, very tragic. Yeoh, a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Program, visited sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar on Saturday as part of a Malaysian delegation led by the Southeast Asian nation's military chief. It should not be allowed, she said. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since August in what the U.N. has described as ethnic cleansing. Every single one of them deserves to have the human rights that should be given to them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.