Angelina Jolie, a special envoy for the U.N.\'s refugee agency, visited the sprawling camps in Bangladesh that are home to 1 million Rohingya refugees. She urged Myanmar to show a genuine commitment to ending violence and displacement in its Rakhine state, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh for safety. More than 700,000 have arrived since August 2017, when Myanmar\'s army led a violent crackdown following attacks on security posts by a Rohingya insurgent group. “It was deeply upsetting to meet the families who have only known persecution and statelessness their whole lives, who speak of being treated like cattle,” she told reporters at the Kutupalong refugee camp. Jolie added, “They have been denied their most basic human right: citizenship in their country of birth. And some still won\'t even call the Rohingya by their rightful name.” Angelina Jolie thanked Bangladesh for hosting the refugees despite being over populated, and urged the international community to provide more resources for the refugees. She has been vocal about her fight for refugees since she became a Special Envoy in 2012.
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