Actress Angelina Jolie has lauded the role of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in addressing the Rohingya crisis in a letter written to the premier. Jolie is the Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR]. She visited Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar in February 2019. The foreign ministry said she wrote the letter recently to the prime minister ‘highly praising’ her for the ‘generosity and the leadership’ in managing the Rohingya crisis.
Bangladesh has given shelter to over a million of Rohingyas. Of them 750,000 fled ethnic cleansing in the Rakhine State in August 2017. Jolie appreciated Bangladesh for giving shelter to the Rohingyas and ensuring their safety and security. She mentioned that the UNHCR would continue its efforts to engage with Myanmar to create suitable conditions for the sustainable return of the Rohingyas.
She also hoped that Bangladesh’s initiatives for the Rohingyas would help to get better funding for the 2020 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis which would be launched in March 2020. She also committed to continue her advocacy for the humanitarian response for the Rohingyas and expressed gratefulness to the people of Bangladesh for all kinds of support, the foreign ministry said.
