Editorial: How Canada can help those fleeing Myanmar
It’s hard to square the outpouring of sympathy Canadians have shown for Syrian refugees with their seeming apathy in the case of Myanmar’s Rohingya, who have been grappling with violence for years. In recent weeks, around 300,000 of them have fled their homes in the state of Rakhine.
Yet there are similarities between both crises. Just as Syrian refugees chanced crossing the Mediterranean, Rohingya have been scrambling aboard boats to get to Bangladesh, and many, mostly women an
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