Yangon: Camps will be set up to provide aid for displaced Muslims inside Rakhine state, state-backed media said, the first time in a 16-day crisis Myanmar’s government has offered any relief for Rohingya scattered by violence, many to Bangladesh.
Around 270,000 Rohingya have fled since Aug 25 when militant attacks sent unrest churning through Rakhine, arriving in Bangladesh hungry and exhausted and squashing into already overcrowded refugee camps.
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