To help the Rohingya, the West must improve its own treatment of refugees


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Open this photo in gallery: Rohingya refugees gather to buy essentials at a market area in Kutupalong camp a day after cyclone Mocha made landfall, in Ukhia, on May 15.MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images Saad Hammadi is a global governance fellow at the University of Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International Affairs and a human-rights advocate. As we reach the six-year mark since atrocities committed by the Myanmar military pushed much of the country’s Rohingya population to flee, it is clear that despite the commitment by Canada and other countries to support human rights, justice, accountability and conditions for safe, voluntary, dignified...