U.S. announces over $170 million in humanitarian assistance for Rohingya Muslims
By Kanishka Singh and Rami Ayyub
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The US on Thursday introduced over $170 million in extra humanitarian help for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, together with these outdoors the nation resembling in Bangladesh, Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned.
“With this new funding, our whole help in response to the Rohingya Refugee Disaster has reached practically $1.9 billion since August 2017, when over 740,000 Rohingya had been pressured to flee to security in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh,” Blinken mentioned in a press release.
The help comes a few month after the United Nations refugee company mentioned the funding to assist Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was “properly wanting wants.”
Greater than one million Rohingya reside in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh comprising the world’s largest refugee settlement, with little prospect of returning to Myanmar, the place they’re principally denied citizenship and different rights.
The brand new spherical of U.S. humanitarian help consists of greater than $93 million by way of the State Division and greater than $77 million by way of the USA Company for Worldwide Growth, Blinken mentioned.
About $138 million was allotted particularly for packages in Bangladesh, Blinken mentioned, including the U.S. was working with the federal government of Bangladesh and with Rohingya Muslims towards discovering options to the disaster.
The overwhelming majority OF Rohingya Muslims fled Mynamar to neighboring Bangladesh throughout a army crackdown in 2017 that the United Nations has mentioned was carried out with genocidal intent.
In his assertion on Thursday, Blinken mentioned most of the Rohinya refugees had been “survivors of a marketing campaign of genocide and crimes in opposition to humanity and ethnic cleaning.”
Myanmar denies genocide, saying it was waging a authentic marketing campaign in opposition to insurgents who attacked police posts. Myanmar is going through costs of genocide on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice within the Hague over the violence.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Rami Ayyub in Washington; Modifying by Chris Reese Modifying by Leslie Adler)
