The UN has asked the international community to allocate 852.4 million dollars to help the approximately 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar 7 years ago and the government of Bangladesh, which received them.

The deputy representative of the United States at the UN reported that the Myanmar regime is using displaced people, including Arakan Muslims, as human shields. He noted that since the coup in Myanmar, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has increased from 1 million to 18.6 million.