The international community has called for access to Myanmar’s Rakhine state in order to provide humanitarian assistance to the more than 200,000 Rohingya refugees now pouring into Bangladesh. This is a complicated part of the country, and more specifically, a complicated part of Rakhine state itself,” he said. A Bangladeshi official said the IOM, WFP and others had no access to the people in Rakhine state, adding that “doors are closed from everywhere”. Last week, Dhaka summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to protest this after a series of explosions maimed Rohingya refugees fleeing the violence in Rakhine state. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi officials urged Asean, of which Myanmar is a member, to actively address the Rohingya crisis as a regional issue.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 09, 2017 18:00 UTC