Around 400,000 Rohingya living in 'dire' conditions within Myanmar: deputy relief chief
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Apart from nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled across the Myanmar border, a further 400,000 are living in “dire situations” at home, without access to healthcare or education.
That’s according to Ursula Mueller, the UN’s deputy relief chief and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who spent nearly a week inside Myanmar earlier this month.
In talks with government officials about the plight of the mainly-Muslim ethnic minority who are based largely in Rakhine State, she also met State Counsellor and Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who talked about the importance of “ending violence”, as well as peace and reconciliation.
In an interview at UN Headquarters in New York with UN News, Matt Wells asked Ms Mueller to outline what she’d seen.
Apart from nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled across the Myanmar border, a further 400,000 are living in “dire situations” at home, without access to healthcare or education.
That’s according to Ursula Mueller, the UN’s deputy relief chief, and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who spent nearly a week inside Myanmar earlier this month.
She told Matt Wells what she’d seen.