International relief organizations have to stop their aid to Rohingya in Arakan

Arakan News Agency
A number of international aid organizations have been forced to suspend humanitarian aid activities in camps where large numbers of Rohingya Muslims live in Arakan province in southwestern Myanmar, fearing security risks, according to international human rights reports.
“There has been a long-standing policy of the army and Buddhist militias in Myanmar to keep aid organizations away from Arakan,” said Hla Kyaw, president of the European Rohingya Council.
In his statement to Anadolu, Kyaw attributed this policy to two main objectives. The first was to “push the Muslims living in the camps to rebellion and disobedience as a result of the lack of humanitarian aid, and then to describe them as extremists, to attack them and to commit new massacres against them.”
He continued: “The second is to open the way for the inhabitants of the camps to starve, with the cessation of the activities of relief organizations.”
Since 25th August, the Myanmar army has committed serious human rights violations in north of Arakan province, using excessive force against Rohingya Muslims, according to media reports.
The World Food Program (WFP) announced on Saturday that it was suspending its relief activities in Arakan province, fearing that its staff would be exposed to security risks during their work.
For the tenth day in a row, groups of Rohingyas have been forced to flee to Bangladesh’s border for safety after losing their homes, property and hundreds of relatives as a result of being shot by the Myanmar army.
There is no clear statistics on the victims of these violations, but the European Rohingya Council announced last Monday that between two thousand and three thousand Muslims were killed in the Arakan army attacks in Myanmar in just three days.
Earlier today, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that more than 73,000 Rohingyas from Arakan had fled to Bangladesh because of recent abuses.