Islamic world lauds UN aid plan
CAIRO / YANGON — Many Islamic states have praised a UN plan to aid 300,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh, local media reported on Saturday.
The report said the UN and its partners have a plan to provide up to 300,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh with food, shelter, water, health care and other services until the end of the year, according to the MENA news agency.
UN agencies have teams in Cox’s Bazar where the Rohingyas are arriving and the $7 million released from the UN emergency fund will allow the UN and its partners to help those in desperate need of aid.
The report added that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Myanmar government to end the “vicious cycle of violence” and immediately reverse its longstanding policy and give Rohingya Muslims either nationality or legal status.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government has vowed to take action against the incitement of violence as such rumors are being spread to people via mobile phone messages and social media.
In a statement released late on Saturday, the Information Committee of the government asked Myanmar people not to be instigated among communities, and urged them to report acts suspected of such incitement.
The local government in Maungtaw, Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, also called on people not to support terrorists in burning homes or properties and prevent them from entering restricted areas as part of a new order issued on Saturday.
The order, announced by Maungtaw District’s General Administration Department, said the security forces will fire warning shots at any law-breakers.
It also called for people’s cooperation with the authorities by following instructions not to rob, steal or destroy properties in the restricted areas, or possess sticks, machetes or explosives.
The security forces have been entering villages to search for Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army extremist terrorists to maintain peace and stability in the areas.