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Myanmar asks Bangladesh to stop aid to stranded Rohingyas

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DHAKA: Myanmar has asked Bangladesh to stop providing aid to 6,000 Rohingya stranded on the border between the two countries since a military crackdown prompted a mass exodus of the minority last year, the foreign ministry in Dhaka said.


The group refused to enter Bangladesh in the months during and after Myanmar’s military campaign, which drove 700,000 other Rohingya across the frontier in an act the United Nations, United States and other western countries have condemned as ethnic cleansing.


They are now stuck in a narrow “no mans land” relying on international aid sent by Bangladesh.


Myanmar called for the aid to be halted in talks between Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali and Myanmar’s top diplomatic envoy, Kyaw Tint Swe, in Myanmar’s capital Napyidaw on Friday, the foreign ministry said late on Saturday.


“Myanmar particularly requested Bangladesh to stop providing humanitarian assistance to those people... and proposed to arrange supply of humanitarian assistance from Myanmar side,” the ministry said.— AFP


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