Trump Urges Help for Myanmar's Rohingya Amid Violent Crackdown
- Envoy Haley cites Trump’s concern after criticism of U.S.
- Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to Bangladesh
Here’s What’s Causing the Turmoil in Myanmar
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U.S. President Donald Trump has asked his national security advisers to find ways to help end violence that’s driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, according to United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
“The president is very concerned about Burma,” Haley told reporters in New York on Thursday, using Myanmar’s former name. “Everybody is trying to figure out who can move the officials in Burma. You have almost half a million people who have left, and the tragedies and the abuse that’s happened there is something not a lot of us can stomach.”