Arakan News Agency
Britain has offered relief aid to Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks to escape abuses in the western province of Arakan.
According to a statement by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development sent relief aid to Chittagong City (southern Bangladesh) on September 28-29 for Rohingya refugees.
The statement said that the aid was airlifted, and included: 20 thousand blankets, 10 thousand and 500 mat for sleeping, and 10 thousand sets of shelter supplies.
Since August 25th, Myanmar’s army and Buddhist militias have committed crimes, attacks and brutal massacres against the Muslim minority of Rohingya; thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands of innocent people displaced, according to local activists.
Last Thursday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh from Arakan province had risen to 501,000.
Britain sends aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
This photograph taken on September 24, 2017 shows a group of Rohingya refugees at the newly-expanded camp housing refugees from Myanmar known as Kutupalong Extension in Bangladesh's Ukhia district.
Bangladesh authorities have cleared hundreds of thousands of newly arrived refugees from roadsides and private land near the border with Myanmar where they had set up camp and ordered them to head for a 2,000-acre site set aside for more than 400,000 Rohingya refugees, an extension of the largest existing camp at Kutupalong. But almost nothing has been set up for them there.
/ AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET / TO GO WITH AFP STORY MYANMAR-BANGLADESH-UNREST-ROHINGYA-REFUGEE-CAMP,FOCUS BY CLAIRE COZENS
