Turkey\u2019s Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said Monday that it had delivered food to 18,500 displaced Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar this month.
\nThe aid, including rice; oil; beans; salt and spices, was distributed in Sittwe and Buthidaung in Rakhine state.
\nTens of thousands of Rohingya have fled their homes in Rakhine since October, when Myanmar\u2019s military launched a crackdown that has attracted severe international criticism of its brutality.
\nAround 100,000 people had been displaced due to oppression and the military violence, IHH Southeast Asia Desk\u2019s Mucahit Demir said in a statement. \u201cOver 75,000 people had to settle in and around Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh\u2019s Cox Bazar region, which is also known as the worst camp in the world.
\n\u201cNearly 30,000 people had to relocate within Rakhine due to oppression and villages being burnt down. Hundreds of thousands of our Rohingya brothers and sisters have become needy since then.
\n\u201cAs IHH, we care especially about the distribution of food and basic necessities that we initiate as emergency aid and plan to continue aid with support from donors,\u201d Demir said.
\nRohingya have fled Rakhine \u2014 one of the poorest states in Myanmar \u2014 in droves for decades, with a new wave of migrations occurring since mid-2012 after communal violence broke out between ethnic Buddhists and the Muslim minority \u2014 described by the UN as one of the world\u2019s most persecuted groups.
\nSecurity forces have been accused of gang-rape, killings, beatings, disappearances and burning villages in the Maungdaw area of northern Rakhine since October.<\/p>\n
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