Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees' plight "shames us all"
Addressing a crowd of refugees on a hilltop in Kutapalong camp, the world’s largest refugee settlement, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie said in her speech to Rohingya refugees: "You have every right not to be stateless and the way you have been treated shames us all. The crisis is the result of decades of discrimination that has gone unaddressed."
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- Published Date: 04:13 | 05 February 2019
- Modified Date: 04:19 | 05 February 2019
She will meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen in the capital, Dhaka, on Wednesday, the refugee agency said.
Several refugees who gathered to watch Jolie speak said they knew only that she was a "high official".
But 22-year-old Mohammed Shakir, who fled his home in Rakhine after the 2017 violence, said he respected her for her humanitarian work.
"When I saw her, I was very excited because she has special words for our Rohingya," he said.
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