Arakan News Agency
Turkiye Diyanet Foundation has provided humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya Muslims who are struggling with their lives in the IDP camps in the regions from Myanmar government’s pressures and the Buddhists attacks.
The Turkiye Diyanet Foundation teams, delivered humanitarian aid to Muslims living in the towns of Sitwe in the Arakan state and in the villages, they delivered food packages for 2,500 families who live in the region.
The representative of the foundation, Mr. Taşkın Bumin Ayrancı, expressed that “The various sanctions and persecution of Muslims in Arakan continues. Arakan is a geography where the persecution is still strictly applied before the eyes of the world. It is painful for our brothers and sisters to become refugees on their own soil. Muslims living in the villages are not allowed to go outside the camps, they are completely enclosed by wire loops. In the field of education, in the field of health care and in many other areas, the state does not have facilities for its own citizens. ”
The Turkiye Diyanet Foundation has been working since 2011 with the Rohingya people of Arakan.
Taşkın Bumin Ayranci stated that they gave support to the people of Arakan in the field of education. “Muslims living in Arakan are not in possession of facilities provided to a citizen in the field of education also in many areas. As a Foundation, we have provided education opportunities for 3,134 Rohingya students in Bangladesh, Malaysia and Pakistan. We provide education in two different ways, organized and open education and we cover all the expenses of students who are studying in secondary education, undergraduate and graduate education.
The United Nations (UN) describes Rohingya Muslims, who are deprived of their citizenship rights in Myanmar, as “the most persecuted minority in the world.”
In Myanmar, many Muslims lost their lives, hundreds of homes and businesses were set on fire, thousands of Muslims had to leave their homes in the violence between Buddhists and Muslims in 2012.
More than 100 people lost their lives in three months and nearly 100,000 civilian refugees, mostly Rohingya Muslims, have been killed in violent attacks targeting civilians and security operations launched by Myanmar Army in border last November in the Arakan province where the Rohingya Muslim population lives.
