A military crackdown has left more than 220,000 Rohingya Muslims on the brink of starvation in Myanmar\u2019s conflict-torn Rakhine state, according to an assessment by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Anadolu Agency reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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A military crackdown has left more than 220,000 Rohingya Muslims on the brink of starvation in Myanmar\u2019s conflict-torn Rakhine state, according to an assessment by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Anadolu Agency reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Food insecurity has been worsening in already highly vulnerable areas in the northern part of Rakhine state since the military crackdown, which began last October, WFP said on Monday.<\/p>\n
UN food agency\u2019s assessment said nearly one-third of the population in the area, where Rohingya Muslims are the majority, were identified as severely food-insecure and in need of humanitarian assistance, with an estimated 225,800 people suffering from hunger.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of the children covered in the survey met the minimum adequate diet,\u201d said the assessment, based on interviews with 450 families in 45 villages in the area.<\/p>\n
It added that an estimated 80,500 children under the age of 5 will be in need of treatment for acute malnutrition within the next 12 months.<\/p>\n
The release of the WFP assessment came one day after a top UN human rights investigators began a 12-day visit to Myanmar to assess the human rights situation in the country.<\/p>\n
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