A chartered flight of relief from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz will arrive at Chittagong port on Friday to support the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. On Wednesday, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, also the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, ordered an allocation of $15 million for the Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Dr Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, adviser at the Royal Court and general supervisor of the King Salman Centre for Relief and Humanitarian Work, issued a statement making the disclosure. At least 400,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since August 25 after Myanmar army launched a brutal campaign targeting Rohingya villages following insurgent attacks on police posts and an army base. The army crackdown has drawn global condemnation, and has been dubbed “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nation’s high commissioner of human rights.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 21, 2017 07:30 UTC