Friday, January 12, 2018

UEHRD leads preparation to receive displaced persons in Rakhine State



January 11, 2018
The Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine (UEHRD) is leading the process of accepting and resettling persons displaced by terrorist activities and development works and has prepared three repatriation and assessment camps to resettle ethnic nationals, Hindus and Muslims.

The UEHRD’s construction group and Ministry of Construction have been constructing repatriation and assessment camps in Taungpyoletwe, Ngakhuya and Hla Hpo Khaung transition camps. Houses were built in Oh Htane, Myoma East, Kyeinchaung, Taungpyo, Myomichaung, Shwezar, Myo Oo and Four Miles for Hindus.
Houses as well as schools and a monastery for local ethnic nationals were being built by states and regions governments, the Ministry of Border Affairs, the Tatmadaw, the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation and donors in Thittonenar Gwa Sone (Mro) village, Khontaing (Mro) village, Zawmatet group, Padaka new village, the Aungsitpyin group beside Taungpyo road, Fawtitaung (Maramar) former village, Thet Taing Nya (Thet) former village, Aungthabyay village, Auk Pyuma and near Khamaungseik town.
Houses for Muslims were also built in villages. Preparation works were completed and responsible personnel from all levels were ensuring that everything is ready for the acceptance and repatriation works, it is learnt.
Meanwhile, authorities have started the land work to construct buildings that will accommodate refugees repatriated from Bangladesh in Hlaphoekhaung Village in Maungtaw District yesterday.
The work was launched on 7 January by pressing into service eight backhoes and four bull dozers.The refugees will be temporarilyhoused in the buildingsafter their citizenship is scrutinised.
“Those who return from Bangladesh will be scrutinized at Ngakhuya and Taungpyolatwe, and they will be provided with temporary accommodation here,” said U Ye Htut, Maungtaw district deputy commissioner.

Myanmar News Agency
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar

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