Four days earlier a Myanmar Red Cross truck was stopped and searched by Rakhine residents in Sittwe. Foreign aid groups are now scaling up to help Bangladesh cope with a humanitarian disaster of biblical proportions. "For the sake of vulnerable people in all communities in Rakhine State, urgent measures must be taken to allow vital humanitarian activities to resume." She said relations between the foreign aid groups and the Rakhine people had been poisoned by years of neglect and favouritism. They have also prompted the authorities to restrict humanitarian access to some Rohingya villages on security grounds, say aid workers.

Source: bd News24 September 23, 2017 10:07 UTC