UN appeals for $430million to tackle Rohingya crisis

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Oct 04 2017 11:53 AM
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UN appeals for $430million to tackle Rohingya crisis

DHAKA: The UN said on Tuesday that it would give application for $430 million in aid from the international community to take action to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, a figure which is more than double what was calculated weeks earlier when the number of refugees was lower.

Six weeks after the UN relief operations started, Mark Lowcock, the UN head for civilized affairs said that the conditions in Rohingya camps were dreadful and that the UN would make an appeal on October 23 in Gee.

"We are imminently going to be publishing an update to the UN response plan and will be looking, in order to shore up the government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh's own institutions, to raise from international community something like &430 million to enable us to scale up the relief operation," Lowcock said in a press conference in the Cox's Bazar district, Efe reported.

"We have a far-fetched set of proposals that come from all the response agencies and we are in a stage now where ... According to the UN, more than half a million Rohingyas have arrived in Bangladesh since August 25, fleeing a wave of violence in Myanmar.

The exodus of Rohingyas began on Aug. 25, when a rebel group of the Muslim minority attacked government posts and the Myanmar army launched a military campaign in response, which has been called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing,"