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Carney heads to Southeast Asia summit as Rohingya refugee crisis grows worse
Prime Minister Mark Carney is traveling to a summit of Southeast Asian leaders while the Rohingya refugee crisis continues.
Canada’s Secretary of State for International Development, Randeep Sarai, said the federal government has not abandoned nearly one million Rohingya people expelled into Bangladesh.
Rohingya families remain in an overcrowded camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, while Amnesty International reported that 150 to 700 new refugees were arriving in Bangladesh each week in October.
ASEAN’s 2021 plan included a ceasefire, negotiations, mediation, aid, and a delegation to Myanmar, but the ceasefire never happened.