VOA News: U.N., U.K. Call for Burma to Allow Humanitarian Aid into Rakhine
“The U.N.’s Special Rapporteur for Human Rights to Burma is urging the government to allow foreign aid workers to return to Rakhine state. The workers were evacuated last month because of ethnic unrest, but the U.N. warns their departure has led to severe consequences for at least 140,000 displaced people living in temporary camps. … On Monday, a senior member of the British Foreign Office, Hugo Swire, met Burma’s ambassador in London to raise concerns about humanitarian aid…” (Paluch, 4/8).