Canada should show willingness towards Rohingya refugees, says envoy to Myanmar

Sources told CTV News that crimes against humanity have occurred in the country.

Last October, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed former Toronto MP and Ontario premier Bob Rae as the special envoy to Myanmar.

Rae's interim order was quoted by the media, "It is hard to convey in words the extent of the humanitarian crisis currently being faced in Bangladesh."

"In addition to accounts of shooting and military violence, I also heard directly from women of sexual violence and abuse at the hands of the Myanmar military, and the death of children and the elderly on the way to the camps.”

Rae had traveled to the Rakhine state in February.

Since August 2017, nearly 700,000 minority Muslim Rohingyas have fled violence in Myanmar across the border into Bangaldesh’s Cox’s Bazar, joining several hundred thousand more that were already settled there in overcrowded camps.

The UN had called it as "a textbook ethnic cleansing".

With relief agencies in Bangladesh struggling to assist more than a million vulnerable Rohingya refugees crowded into makeshift camps along the country’s south-east coast, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday appealed for international support to help the cash strapped health sector scale up its response.