A senior foreign service official warned a Canadian ambassador who tweeted his praise of the “pleasing” beaches of Myanmar amid an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing that the photo might be taken the wrong way. Continue reading →

Bob Rae, Canada’s special envoy on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, will release a report outlining what he recommends the government do about the humanitarian and security conflict. Continue reading →

First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar’s government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth. Continue reading →

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland slapped new sanctions on one of the senior members of Myanmar’s military for his role in the brutal attacks that have forced more than half a million Rohingya to flee the country since last summer. Continue reading →

The food supply appears to be another weapon that’s being used against the dwindling numbers of Rohingya in Myanmar. Continue reading →

The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened and has acknowledged only one mass grave containing 10 “terrorists.” Continue reading →

Aid workers and many Rohingya are afraid they would be coerced into going back to villages that they fled only months ago. Continue reading →

The military acknowledged that security forces and villagers were responsible for the deaths of 10 people found in a mass grave in December. Continue reading →

The Canadian ambassador to Indonesia welcomed 2018 by tweeting from a beach in Myanmar, the same country whose military is leading a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people there. Continue reading →

Rae’s interim report said refugee camps are “deplorably overcrowded and pose a threat to human health and life itself.” Continue reading →