Friday, November 10, 2017

Rakhine State Government prepares to build repatriation camps for refugees



 November 9, 2017
Rakhine State Government launched preparation for construction of buildings where refugees returned from Bangladesh would be scrutinized.

Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu and its cabinet members along with developers, who will construct the infrastructures, visited the Ngakhuya and Taungpyolatwe areas in Maungtaw yesterday, inspecting the sites chosen for building the infrastructures.
Following the trip, they went to a new village construction for Mro ethnic people in Thittonnar Gwason Village-tract in Maungtaw Township being impleted by the Ministry of Border Affairs and the Department for Development of National Races.
During the trip to conflict areas in northern Rakhine, Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, Rakhine State ministers and developers visited an area where a new village for Hindus which was destroyed by ARSA terrorists in late August.
More than 70 households would be provided with a 40ftx60ft house each in the new village of Ohhtein for Hindu families. During the trip, State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu urged the developers to create job opportunities for local Mro ethnic people in constructing houses.
He also urged Mro ethnic people to actively participate in establishing housing for the local people. The Rakhine State Chief Minister also held a meeting with the developers over establishing repatriation camps for refugees who fled to Bangladesh as their houses were destroyed by ARSA extremist terrorists.

Nay Htet Khaung
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar

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