Bangladesh silent on Canada offer to take Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh silent on Canada offer to take Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh declined an offer by Canada to take in Rohingya refugees – including women who were raped – Canadian officials said, as the South Asian country pushes ahead with controversial plans to repatriate the displaced to neighbouring Myanmar.

Canada offered to take in a limited number of vulnerable refugees in May when Foreign Minister ystia Freeland visited Bangladesh, according to Canadian officials who added the proposal still stands.

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