Humanitarian assistance for Rohingya: UN seeks govt permission

Hefazat-e-Islam stages a demonstration, protesting at atrocities on Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar military, in front of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka on Thursday.

Rohingya influx from Myanmar continues Several UN bodies and international organisations contacted the government seeking consent to their planned operations for providing humanitarian assistance to several thousand distressed Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh fleeing atrocities by Myanmar cialis medication military in Rakhine state. The international organisations made the request to the government through the foreign ministry as over 10,000 people of the persecuted religious minority group in Rakhine state crossed the hilly terrains and Naf River borders in about last two months for shelter in Bangladesh. Several thousand Rohingyas were in serious shortage of food, shelter, warm clothes and medicine as neither any government agency nor international and non-governmental organisations formally launched any programme to provide humanitarian assistance to them. Many of them were staying under the open sky. Some of them were living in crammed and thatched makeshift shelters in and outside refugee camps in the bordering areas. ‘We have contacted the government seeking consent for providing humanitarian assistance to the people who recently arrived from Myanmar,’ UNHCR real viagra for sale country representative Shinji Kubo told New Age over phone on Wednesday. He hoped that the government would provide the field administration with necessary instructions to involve the UN organisations working on the ground. Shinji Kubo visited newly arrived Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. He said that the people who arrived from Myanmar told him that they were in unbearable stress as their family members were indiscriminately killed, houses were burnt and some of the female family members were raped. The UNHCR official said that the victims were in serious need of humanitarian assistance as they arrived here with no belonging. ‘They were somehow surviving seeking support from the local communities. This is not sustainable.’ At least 30,000 Rohingyas refugees of Myanmar have been living at two UNHCR-run camps over two decades while over 300,000 irregular Myanmar nationals have been staying in thatched shelters on hills and plains in bordering areas. Sarat Das, chief of International Organisation for Migration in Dhaka, said that cialis song the IOM service points were receiving new faces every day in different areas of Cox’s Bazar. The IOM health service centres were receiving new patients and demands for drinking water and sanitation were also increasing day by day at supply points, IOM officials said. An International Committee of the Red Cross official in Dhaka said that they requested the government to allow services to the distressed real viagra people from Myanmar. A government official admitted that they received requests from international organisations for allowing services to newly arrived people of Myanmar. ‘We need to avoid creating a pull factor that may encourage Myanmar military to continue atrocity for pushing Rohingyas to cross the border in hundreds,’ a government official said. New Age correspondent in Cox’s Bazar reported that at least 300 Rohingya Muslims entered Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas Thursday morning. About 40 families of them comprising about 200 people took how fast does cialis work shelter at Kutupalang of Ukhiya and the rests went to Ledha of Teknaf. Sufferings of new arrivals at Kutupalang makeshift camp areas of Ukhiya upazila increased due to rain. Some interested people tried to provide blankets to newly arrived Rohingyas at Kutupalang hilly areas but the local administration did not allow them to enter the areas where other Rohingyas, who came earlier, stayed. Border Guard Bangladesh on Thursday thwarted attempts of 200 Rohingyas, mostly women and children, to intrude into Bangladesh on 11 small wooden boats on Thursday, said border guard battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Abu Zar Al Zahid. Border guards intercepted the boats at Unsiprang, Zimmongkhali, Ledha and Teknaf points on the river Naff, he said. Myanmar militaries raided Kyagon Taung village near Usyinga, a Rohingya populated village of Northern Maungdaw on Thursday. Abdul Karim of the village said that troops intruded their home, looted all valuables and ordered the Rohingyas to enter Bangladesh. Myanmar military also cordoned Attaboegti, another Rohingya Muslim populated village of Buthidaung area, and indiscriminately sprayed bullets to create panic Thursday morning. Myanmar army watermelon is equal to viagra launched the crackdown on Muslims in Rakhine state after ‘miscreants’ allegedly killed several cops in attacks on border outposts in the first week of October.

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Source: New Age