European Commission Allocates €300,000 in Aid for Rohingya Refugees
The charges against the Burmese army are very serious – rape, mass slaughter, burning entire villages and loot, all extremely serious human rights violations.
However Bangladesh has not labelled the Rohingyas as refugees and the Bangladeshi establishment is drafting policies to stop the Rohingyas from entering their borders. This has given rise to refugee crisis in Bangladesh.
A United Nations official was recently quoted as saying that Myanmar’s western Rakhine (formerly Arakan) State has been witness to Burmese authorities carrying out a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims with military atrocities continuing in the garb of combating militants in the region. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing the country and entering into Bangladesh to save their clan from getting extinct.
The European Commission is allocating €300,000 to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees, who have recently fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh, according to Eurasia Review.
"Most of the Rohingya families who have recently crossed the Naaf River have arrived with nothing, and are therefore in critical need of humanitarian assistance,” said Roman Majcher, Head of the European Commission’s humanitarian aid department (ECHO) office in Bangladesh. "The support from the European Commission will not only ensure that their urgent needs are addressed, but will also contribute to help them cope with what they have just gone through by providing them with psychological support.”
The EU-funded financial assistance will focus on immediate relief and assistance to Rohingya refugees in terms of food and nutrition support, as well as the provision of non-food relief data-x-items such as sleeping kits, hygiene parcels and warm clothes etc.
The 1.1 million Rohingyas are viewed as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.
