translated from Spanish: Angelina Jolie sends strong message to Burma in wake of violence

Kutupalong, Bangladesh, (AFP) – the American actress Angelina Jolie called Tuesday on Burma to demonstrate a “real desire” to stop the cycle of violence against the rohinyas, on a visit to the refugee camps in Banglades.angelina Jolie arrived Monday as Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) to Bangladesh, a poor country in Southeast Asia where almost a million of rohinyas live together in huge tents after fleeing the persecutions against its Muslim community in neighboring Burma.

 Angelina Jolie, the UN Special Envoy, visits a school in Khingupalong camp for rohingya refugees in Ukhia, in southern Bangladesh. Photo: AFP “Urge the Burmese authorities to show the real will to put an end to the cycle of violence and displacement, and to improve conditions for all communities in the State of Rakain”, where they come from the rohinyas, said the actress .

Angelina Jolie gave a speech demanding an end to violence against the rohinyas. Photo: AP during his visit to the camps of Cox Bazaar Completo (South) District, who came to accommodate 740.000 people by the end of 2017, Angeline Jolie had a series of meetings with refugees, including women raped by the Burmese military.

The actress, filmmaker and humanitarian American Angelina Jolie is a Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Photo: AP “has been deeply disturbing to find families who all his life only have known persecution and being stateless, telling that they have been treated ‘like cattle'”, said the actress 43 years to the press.

Front of hundreds of refugees, he offered a message of hope. Photo: EFE in August of 2017, threatened by the army and Buddhist militia, more than 720,000 rohinyas fled Burma to take refuge in Bangladesh, where they live in very precarious conditions in vast camps.

Salutes to various rohinyas after giving a press conference after visiting the Kutupalong camp. Photo: EFE Bangladesh and Burma signed an agreement which provides for the repatriation of 2,260 rohinyas as of November 15, spent at a rate of 150 per day.

Angelina Jolie has spent years fighting against various global problems is an example of activism and fight. Photo: EFE but the United Nations considers that the conditions for the return of the rohinyas are not given. Jolie will end his trip to Bangladesh on Wednesday with a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said the UN in a statement.

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