ميانمار: البوذيون يمنعون وصول المساعدات لمسلمي الروهينجا

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكدت منظمة "أطباء بلا حدود" وبعض لجان الإغاثة والهيئات المسؤولة عن تقديم المساعدات لمسلمي "الروهينجا" ضحايا الاعتداءات البوذية الأخيرة - أن البوذيين يمنعونهم من إيصال المساعدات.

وقد أعرب د."جوي بليفو" - المتحدث باسم المنظمة - عن دهشته من انعدام الإنسانية لدرجة رفض السماح بإيصال المساعدات الطبية الضرورية، وأشار أيضًا إلى تلقي أفراد المنظمة تهديدات مباشرة أعاقتهم عن العمل، وهذا بالإضافة إلى مخاوف اندلاع المزيد من العنف بالرغم من انتشار رجال الشرطة والجنود. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

يرجى الإشارة إلى المصدر عند نقل الخبر – شبكة الألوكة.

الخبر من مصدره الأصلي:

Aid for Refugees in Myanmar Threatened by Violence

Radical Buddhist groups are preventing doctors from delivering assistance to areas of western Myanmar affected by communal violence, an international medical charity said Monday.

The group, Médecins Sans Frontières, one of the leading providers of medical assistance to people in Rakhine State, reported that many of its local staff members were afraid to work at refugee camps and medical centers where people displaced by the violence awaited treatment.

“I’ve never experienced this degree of intolerance,” Joe Belliveau, the operations manager in Myanmar for Médecins Sans Frontières, said by telephone. “What we really need is for people to understand that giving medical aid is not a political act.”

The difficulties facing international agencies in Rakhine underline the instability of the area — and the potential for further outbreaks of violence — despite the presence of thousands of soldiers and police officers.

Mr. Belliveau said that posters and pamphlets were being distributed in Sittwe, the largest city in Rakhine, threatening aid workers who treat Muslims.

Clashes late last month between Buddhists and Muslims left 89 people dead and displaced 35,000, according to the United Nations.

In recent days, aid workers have reported treating people for wounds from guns and other weapons, including knives and arrows.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has reported the widespread deployment of security forces in Rakhine State, but also widespread fear there. “Our staff spoke to displaced people who shared their fears of being attacked again if the troops leave,” a spokesman for the office said in a statement released Friday.

Mr. Belliveau of Médecins Sans Frontières said that staffing in the area had been reduced to a few dozen people from around 300 before the initial outbreak of violence in June. “Our own staff are simply scared and unwilling to work after receiving direct threats,” he said.

The state is one of the most impoverished areas of Myanmar. Aid workers have reported severe malnutrition among children and the widespread prevalence of malaria. “There’s a huge group of people who have not been displaced but are cut off from health care,” Mr. Belliveau said.

Most of those who fled their homes were Muslims, aid workers say. Clashes between Muslims and Buddhist villagers have spread to a wider swath of Rakhine State, which borders Bangladesh.