Sudanese Groups Extend US$200,000 Aid To Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims

Bernama

January 8, 2013

KHARTOUM -- Two Sudanese groups -- Higher Committee for Support to the Muslims of Rohingya and National Group for the Human Rights of Myanmar (Rohingya) Muslims -- have announced aid totalling US$200,000 as the first installment of support to Muslims facing various violations and withdrawal of their Myanmar nationality.

At a press conference at the Al-Zubair Charity Institution here Monday, National Human Rights Group chairman Ibrahim Abdul-Haleem said a delegation of the higher committee had visited Turkey and signed an agreement with a charity organisation and visited a camp of Myanmar Muslims in Bangladesh and extended different kinds of relief to Rohingya Muslims.

He said Sudan remains one of the first countries that extended support to the affected people in the world, referring to the support provided to victims of earthquake in Pakistan and Algeria.

He added Sudan's support for the Muslims in Myanmar would continue in all levels, including at international forums until their rights were fully restored.

Meanwhile, chairman of the Higher Committee for Support to the Rohingya, Mohamed Al-Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, said Sudanese-Turkish relations were witnessing progress in all fields.

This had resulted in the signing of a smart partnership agreement between the Sudanese Human Rights Group and a Turkish charity organisation through which Sudan had extended aid to the Muslims in Myanmar.