Global Courant 2023-05-17 10:15:32
Dhaka, Bangladesh
More than 400 people were killed in Hurricane Mocha, which washed up on the coast between Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district and Myanmar’s Kyaukpyu district on Sunday in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a human rights group said.
In a statement made by the Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA), it was stated that coastal villages in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan, were severely damaged, with more than 400 people, mostly Muslims, losing their lives and the death toll expected to rise. He added that more than 10,000 houses were also destroyed.
One of the strongest storms to hit the region, Hurricane Mocha made landfall on Sunday, leaving death and destruction behind. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said it had entered the Arakan coast with wind speeds of more than 135 miles (217 kilometers) per hour.
“Since 2012, around 130,000 Rohingya Muslims have been held in refugee camps in Sittwe, similar to concentration camps. Most were not evacuated. Nay San Lwin, one of the founders of the Free Rohingya Coalition, told Anadolu, that a camp with 380 shelters was completely destroyed by floods of about 9 meters.
According to multiple sources, the death toll in all camps in Sittwe could be more than 400. However, it will take some time to get the exact figure due to outages in mobile and internet services in the region. He added that 90 percent of the structures in all camps were damaged.
The storm surge rose to 9-9.5 feet in the lowlands of the Arakan and Bangladesh coasts, according to the latest United Nations statement.
Mocha destroyed almost all houses, shelters, schools, mosques, monasteries, clinics and all infrastructure in Sittwe. It also struck the towns of Ponnagyan, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Myebon, Pauktaw and Rathedaung.
Meanwhile, the ARNA statement strongly condemned the military regime for not doing enough to save the lives of the people and not doing proper hurricane disaster management.
“People are now in dire need of drinking water, medicines, shelter, food and basic necessities, and we call on the international community and NGOs to come to their aid. The military regime allows all aid agencies and individual helpers to have unhindered access to every person in need without any discrimination. should give”.
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