Angelina Jolie condemns sexual violence against Rohingya women refugees
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Angelina Jolie 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 Muslim refugees across the border to Bangladesh.
More
than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims 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”.
Jolie,
a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), told a Bangladesh delegation in the Canadian city of
Vancouver that she planned to visit the Rohingya victims of sexual
violence.
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