Arakan News Agency
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country will provide additional humanitarian assistance worth 9.5 million dollars to Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape military operations in the Arakan province in western Myanmar.
“Canada is deeply concerned about the urgent humanitarian and security crisis in Arakan Province, particularly the brutal persecution of the Rohingya people,” Trudeau said at a news conference. “He is confident that the experience of former Ontario Minister Bob Ray, as newly appointed Special Envoy To Myanmar, a vast lawyer, adviser, negotiator and former government official, will help Canada work more effectively with Myanmar. ”
Ray is scheduled to leave for Myanmar next week to gather facts from officials there on the crisis of the Rohingya Muslims and present them as a report to the prime minister.
The Myanmar government considers the Rohingya Muslims “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, while the United Nations classifies them as “the most persecuted religious minority in the world.”
