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AlertNet: Conflict-hit Myanmar needs urgent humanitarian aid –Refugees International

Western donors must increase rapidly humanitarian aid to impoverished Myanmar, where conflicts have internally displaced half a million people and where 800,000 stateless Rohingyas live in dire conditions, Refugees International said in a report.

The report released on Wednesday also said western governments should lift restrictions on aid to Myanmar, which it said have “exacerbated the impact of the government’s disastrous economic policies and deepened the suffering of the poorest Burmese.”

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