Mr. Arkani, who is the president of the Rohingya Association of Canada, is one of the approximately 300 Rohingya Muslims living in Canada today – a close-knit community that is deeply concerned about the safety of their relatives in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The Rohingya, a mostly Muslim ethnic group, have been denied citizenship in Myanmar since 1982 despite centuries-old roots in the country's Rakhine state, rendering them stateless.
The current crisis in Myanmar has been described as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by United Nations human-rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. Myanmar has denied these allegations.
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