Myanmar: Myanmar's Rakhine state may face severe famine in the future. Rakhine state, where the minority Rohingya community is dominated by conflict between government forces and powerful ethnic groups, may face severe famine in the near future. The United Nations Development Agency has warned about this in a new report.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said in a report released on Thursday that a terrible storm is emerging. Which has brought Western Rakhine State to the brink of unprecedented disaster. This includes restrictions on the supply of goods from other places in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, resulting in a lack of employment for residents.
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Along with this, interrelated developments have been pointed out, including rapidly rising inflation, significant decline in food production and lack of essential services and social security system. UNDP said this could result in an already highly vulnerable population reaching the brink of collapse in the coming months.
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long considered the Rohingya Muslim minority to be Bengalis from Bangladesh, even though their families have lived in the country for generations. The country has refused citizenship to almost everyone since 1982. The military launched a crackdown following attacks by the Rohingya insurgent group on Myanmar security personnel in August 2017, forcing at least 740,000 Rohingya people to flee to Bangladesh.
The army is accused of mass rape, murder and burning thousands of houses. Since the military overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic minority armed forces have been attempting to oust the military from power.
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In November last year, the Arakan Army, which is seeking autonomy from Myanmar's central government, launched an offensive against the army in Rakhine and seized control of more than half the towns. The Arakan Army, the armed wing of the Rakhine ethnic minority movement, is also part of a coalition of armed ethnic groups trying to topple the military government. (agency)
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