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In Committee from the Senate of Canada
Human Rights - October 2, 2017 - Part 1
The committee holds another special hearing on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority group have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape the Myanmar military crackdown. The witnesses are Canadian Burma Ethnic Nationalities Organization representatives Zaw Wai Kyaw (founding president and coordinator) and Pri Lwan (secretary); Matthew Smith (co-founder and chief executive officer, Fortify Rights); and Global Affairs officials Don Bobiash (assistant deputy minister, Asia Pacific), Ian Burchett (director general, Southeast Asia) and Stephen Salewicz (director general, International Humanitarian Assistance Operations).