The number of displaced people in Burma has doubled since the February 2021 coup, while security is “deteriorating rapidly” across the country due to fighting and armed conflict. This was stated in Geneva by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Since February 2021, UNHCR has registered some 440,000 new displaced people who have joined the 370,000 people who had already fled their homes: The total number of displaced persons has thus exceeded the 800,000 mark, UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheshirkov said. . With approximately 600,000 stateless Rohingya in Rakhine State, Burma has over 1.2 million internally displaced and stateless people. In the current context and in the absence of signs of improvement, UNHCR expects “an acceleration of displacements in the coming weeks and months”, added Cheshirkov.
UNHCR and its partners are stepping up operations and deploying additional resources to support as many displaced people as possible, “but humanitarian access to many parts of Myanmar (Burma) remains limited due to insecurity, road blocks and of the difficulties in obtaining access authorizations “, underlined the spokesman, asking for” full, safe and unhindered “humanitarian access throughout the country.
Source: Ansa
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