Shah Porir Dwip: Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry an elderly woman in a basket and walk towards a refugee camp in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. (Source: AP/PTI) Shah Porir Dwip: Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry an elderly woman in a basket and walk towards a refugee camp in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. (Source: AP/PTI)With the global outrage mounting on Myanmar over its handling of Rohingya crisis, India’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Rajiv K Chander, stated that only long-term solution to the situation in Rakhine state was socio-economic and infrastructure development. An estimated 410,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh as their villages burned and hundreds were killed in the fresh bout of violence since August 25. As per reports, the violence erupted when Rohingya militants attacked police posts in Rakhine state.

Source: Indian Express September 19, 2017 10:41 UTC