An issue on the minds of many at the U.
N. General Assembly this week is the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees currently fleeing Myanmar.
Satellite images released this week by Human Rights Watch show hundreds of Rohingya villages burned to the ground,in what the U.
N. called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."The Nobel Peace Prize winner and defacto leader of Myanmar, Aung Saan Suu Kyi, and decided not to attend the General Assembly this week — many view it as a poke to avoid international pressure on the issue. Eric Schwartz,president of Refugees International and former U.
S. assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, or just returned from the Myanmar-Bangladesh border this week,and he discusses why this trip made him choke up for the first time in his 30-year career. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org