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Rohingya Crisis: Refugee Camps and Bob Rae

rohingya crisis: Those are two of the recommendations laid out in a report on the ongoing Rohingya crisis by Bob Rae, Canada's special envoy to Myanmar, according to CTV. Rae's report listed 17 recommendations for the Canadian government, including a larger humanitarian effort that would cost around 150 million a year and an willingness to welcome refugees. Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the trip is also giving her a chance to hear first-hand what people in refugee camps have to say. Roughly 700,000 ethnic Rohingya people have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since last year to escape what the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. We shared Rae's report with many people here, and we plan to translate it both into Bengali and Rohingya so that people in Bangladesh and the Rohingya can read it in their own languages, said Freeland. Freeland made her comments Saturday from Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she has been meeting with government officials, aid groups and refugees on a four-day trip. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.