Angelina Jolie Visits Rohingya Refugee Camps, Says 'We Cannot Say We Had No Warning'

Angelina Jolie hits the stage to join in on a press briefing on Tuesday (February 5) as she visited the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

The 43-year-old actress, who’s a special envoy of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, went straight to a camp in Teknaf near the Myanmar border to address a crowd of refugees on a hilltop in Kutapalong camp, the world’s largest refugee settlement.

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Angelina said she was “humbled and proud to stand with you today” during her speech. “You have every right not to be stateless and the way you have been treated shames us all,” she said, adding the crisis was the result of decades of discrimination that had gone unaddressed.

“What is most tragic about this situation is that we cannot say we had no warning,” Angelina continued. She’s set to meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen in the capital, Dhaka, on Wednesday, the refugee agency said.