Crucial aid deliveries have been cut off from the impoverished Rakhine area since August 25.
Rohingya refugees on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf on Saturday (Photo: AFP)
Yangon: More than 2,000 Rohingyas have massed along Myanmar’s coast this week after trekking from inland villages in Rakhine to join the exodus to Bangladesh, reports said Saturday.
They follow more than half a million fellow Rohingyas who have emptied out of northern Rakhine in a single month, fleeing an army crackdown and communal violence the UN says amounts to “ethnic cleansing”. The journey to Bangladesh is fraught with danger for the stateless minority, who have faced decades of systematic oppression in Buddhist Myanmar. Crucial aid deliveries have been cut off from the impoverished Rakhine area since August 25.
( Source : AFP )
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