Rohingya crisis: US State Dept spokesperson to visit Bangladesh

US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert will be in Bangladesh from November 3-4 as part of a US delegation in the country to discuss the Rohingya crisis. The delegation also includes Simon Henshaw, acting assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Tom Vajda of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and Office Director Patricia Mahoney of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The delegates will be in the region to discuss ways to address the humanitarian and human rights concerns stemming from the Rakhine State crisis and improve the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the displaced Rohingya in Myanmar, Bangladesh, and elsewhere in the region. They will also visit the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine since late August during military operations that the United Nations described as ethnic cleansing and the world's most acute refugee crisis.