Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, calls plight of refugees deeply upsetting
07 February 2019 |
5:23 am
U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar this week.
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