Rohingya Villages: Rohingya Muslims and Bob Rae

rohingya villages: CTV News' Daniele Hamamdjian has been touring with the newly-appointed envoy and told CTV News Channel that he spent much of the day in meetings where he was given information about the challenges facing Bangladesh as it tries to cope with the swelling refugee population, according to CTV. Since violence erupted in Rohingya villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state in late August, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought safety in Bangladesh. Bob Rae, the former Ontario premier and interim leader of the federal Liberal party, met with officials in the city of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Friday to learn more about the refugee crisis. Myanmar's security forces conducted brutal raids on Rohingya villages in what they call clearance operations in retaliation for what they describe as attacks by Muslim insurgents. Rae will be visiting Bangladesh and Myanmar with a small team, which includes Canada's High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit Prefontaine, to gain a better understanding of both sides of the conflict. The United Nations has labelled the state-led violence as ethnic cleansing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.