Arakan News Agency
In a further deterioration of the humanitarian situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the World Food Program (WFP) suspended the distribution of aid to civilians in northwestern Myanmar due to fighting in Arakan state amid worsening humanitarian crisis as death toll rises and tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya residents flee.
The World Food Program said in a statement that the suspension of food aid would affect 250,000 displaced people and other vulnerable populations.
Some 120,000 people, mostly Muslim Rohingya Muslims, have been receiving aid in the camps since 2012, when clashes have killed a large number of people.
In the meantime, the government in Myanmar announced that more than 2,600 houses of the Rohingya minority were burnt in the northwestern regions last week.
Myanmar’s army announced on Wednesday that some 400 people, mostly from the Rohingya minority, had been killed as a result of the violence. But the testimony of the Rohingya who survived in Bangladesh reveal that the death toll is even greater.
