November
20, 2016
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and
Resettlement and the Rakhine State Government are providing food to the
residents of the state while security forces are tightening security in the
area.
Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and
Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye and Rakhine State Chief Minister, together with
state ministers, visited Pantawpyin, Ywathitke, TatOoChaung, Gawduthara and
Oodaung villages in southern Maungtaw and provided rice, edible oil, salt,
pulses, beans and dried fish to residents.
Local residents said that they did not have any
difficulty for food and shelter but they were afraid to go from one place to
another due to security situation.
“Schools have already been reopened in ethnic
villages but I have not seen so in other villages,” said Village Administrator
U Tin Aung of Gawduthera Village.
The union minister and party proceeded to Maungtaw
Township Hospital and comforted patients there in the afternoon.
Later, the union minister and party visited northern
ethnic villages in Maungtaw including Aungzeya, Aungtharya and Aungmingala and
presented food and toys for children in the villages.
“We assigned sentry for the security of the village.
Schools have already been reopened but there are only a few teachers as they
have not returned,” said a villager from Aungmingala Village.
Afterwards, the union minister and party went to the
Headquarters of No 1 Border Guard Police Headquarters and met with families
there before presenting snacks and toys for children.
“We visited the villages where violent attacks broke
out including four ethnic villages and four other villages to provide food such
as rice, edible oil and pulses and beans. I noticed that all children in
villages we visited are healthy, quite contrary to the rumours that they are
malnourished,” the union minister said.
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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